I think many business start-ups may agree – things always take longer than you think they will!
Building a website with bespoke functionality is quite a challenge. Olu has 20+ years in corporate IT under his belt and he built a simple website for me a couple years ago! But we’ve discovered that trying to create an e-commerce website with bespoke functionality is not as straightforward as we had originally thought!!!
Getting to grips with WordPress and WooCommerce and lots of other plugins, alongside tools like Inkscape and Gimp to create the content, has been a challenge. But Olu does love a challenge; and slowly but surely he is overcoming the obstacles one by one!
I have designed and started production on a range of cushions for the Afrique Fabrique shop. These include; our ‘Matrix’ range, colourful 16 square patchworks using a range of traditional printed fabrics from Nigeria; also our ‘Column’, ‘Bi-line’, and ‘Trilogy’ cushions, which feature appliquéd strips of hand woven Kente from Ghana.
I’m currently working on some more complex, pieced, designs using some dazzling Aso Oke fabrics from Nigeria
Watch this space…..
I would love to leave a review but it’s not easy to work out how to do so. I have a son-in-law-to-be who is of Ghanaian heritage and I have fallen in love with the beautiful Kente fabrics. I first found this site, when during the time of the Black Lives Matter protests, was looking to see if anyone made a face covering in Kente cloth. I bought one, and saw the gorgeous cushions. Since then, I think my husband and I, between us, have cleared Ginny out of her stock of Kente cushions. We have bought 9 of them in different designs. Absolutely gorgeous and very well made. So looking forward to the end of lockdown so our family and friends can see them in the flesh.