Cameroon. Tree bark fabric.
Cameroon has a long tradition of making textiles from tree bark, from the most well-known fibre, raffia, which comes from a variety of palm trees and is used in making baskets and bags, to the more complex “Obom” fibre. Obom, in the Cameroonian Fang-Beti language, means “fabric made from the bark of the Aloa tree.” […]