Adire Center

The Adire and African Fabrics Center (AAFC) was set up under Olusegun Obasanjo Library Foundation, for the Global promotion of Adire and African fabrics.

Adire is the name given to indigo dyed cloth produced by Yoruba women of south western Nigeria using a variety of resist dye techniques. Adire translates as tie and dye, and the earliest cloths were probably simple tied designs on locally-woven hand-spun cotton cloth much like those still produced in Mali. In the early decades of the twentieth century however, the new access to large quantities of  ...