COSTUME ACCESSORIES

African Art and Cultural Village promotes and produces African Costume Accessories including ladies handbags, purses, necklaces, heels, scarves, belt, etc. We mostly concentrate on using African products such as African Textiles and printed fabrics, beads, bamboo, raffia, cane and other indigenous materials to manufacture these products. AACV is currently training people to be able to produce these kind of fashion products. As at now 18 people have successfully graduated from our intense training program on costume accessories production.

TRAINING ON FOOTWEAR PRODUCTION

 African Art and Cultural Village provides regular free training program for the youth on shoe making. The trainees are mostly taught how to blend African products such as local prints and motifs, textiles, beads and  leathers with little imported materials to produce unique African footwears including, Heels, Loafers, Sandals, Slippers and more.Here are some of the footwears produce by our trainees.

 For Females

MALE FOOTWEAR

Kente Weaving Training Program - By African Art and Cultural Village Project in collaboration with Wear Afrik Fashion

As part of our pilot project on African Fashion Designs, many unemployed youth are provided with Entrepreneurship Training and Seminars on how to promote and produce unique and contemporary African Fashion Products. There have series of training programs which have been organized by African Art and Cultural Village Training Center. We believe that these trainees will able to acquired enough experience and expertise to take over the production and training during the take off of our main project, African Art and Cultural Village. The first major Training organized by our Training Center was Kente Weaving

Our Kente Weaving Training Spin Offs:

Eight months Training program (21st September 2013 to 18th May 2014)  was organized on how to weave a traditional African Kente cloth for eleven youth in Nyamfa, a deprived community in the Sekyere East District of Ashanti in Ghana. After the Training, the youth were able to weave a complete and ready made cloth for market. The youth were also provided with free tools and materials to produce their own products for market. Wear Afrik Fashion provides them with ready market, that is the buy these kente clothes from them and then sells to both domestic and international customers. Kente clothes below are some of their products....