Zanzibar seaweed farmers are growing fashion’s next material
Tanzanian biomaterials company KelTex turns locally grown seaweed into a biodegradable material to meet fashion's increasing demand for an alternative to leather
Tag: Africa Textile Talks
14 Young African innovators imagine the future of textiles
From sunflower stems and banana fibre to wool, bacteria and plastic waste, the finalists in Twyg's inaugural Textile Innovation Student Challenge show how African materials and knowledge could reshape fashion
Africa Textile Talks launches Future Fabrics Student Challenge
Emerging designers, makers and researchers are invited to explore regenerative materials, indigenous knowledge and textile innovation through a new Africa-wide challenge
Africa Textile Talks 2026: Creating thriving textile futures
Join this two-day convening for innovation, regenerative materials, trade, production and African textile and clothing futures
Why is Accra a dumping ground for global waste?
The founder of circularity lab The Revival makes sense of a fashion crisis in Accra
From leather to trade cloth: Namibian indigenous aesthetic politics in textiles
Maria Caley's presentation at the 2025 Africa Textile Talks
Africa Textile Talks Day 2: Wool, nature and people
Exploring wool from farm to fibre, Day 2 of Africa Textile Talks 2025 highlights regeneration, traceability and the people shaping one of South Africa’s most valuable natural fibres
Africa Textile Talks Day 1: Circular solutions for South Africa’s textile industry
From life cycle assessments to textile recycling and policy reform, Day 1 of Africa Textile Talks 2025 examines how circularity could reshape South Africa’s fashion and textile industry.
Explore Threads of Renewal
This year Africa Textile Talks extended its offering with an exhibition titled Threads of Renewal curated by Twyg’s fashion editor, Tandekile Mkize. Open for the duration of the talks programme, 29 July – 2 August, the exhibition created a space...
Good Good Good takes Mekeka Designs barkcloth to Paris Fashion Week
At the Africa Textile Talks in August 2024, Ugandan textile experts Josephine Mukasa and Pamela Kyagera presented barkcloth—an indigenous and renewable Ugandan textile—to an audience of 200 in Cape Town. The designers from Good Good Good were in attendance, and...
Threads of Africa: A Tapestry of Tradition and Modernity
African fashion is an expression and celebration of the continent’s identities, cultures and creativity. At the recent Africa Textile Talks in Cape Town, Merchants on Long, one of the event sponsors, collaborated with Twyg to create a fashion installation to...
Join us for the first Slow Fashion Festival in Cape Town
Along with our partners the V&A Watershed, we’re hosting our first Slow Fashion Festival in Cape Town. Join us on 17 August from 10am – 4pm for a day of slow fashion experiences (and some music and dancing) at the...
What to expect at Africa Textile Talks 2024
Africa Textile Talks 2024 is focussed on textile practices that inspire us to imagine and transition to a post-fossil fuel future. Our thoughtfully curated programme introduces attendees to makers and thinkers from South Africa and across the African continent who...
Artist Gina van der Ploeg connects textiles to land
For Cape Town-based textile artist, Gina van der Ploeg, textiles are not an end in themselves. Instead, she honours the entire process of making textiles by exploring the different parts of the textile supply chain in her art. “It’s crazy...