TIMBUKTU RESEARCH AND DESIGN

AFRICA’S FUTURE’S

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Our shop is stocked with both digital and physical products. These products are designed inspired by the boundless African heritage artefacts. Our digital items is just one click away.

Each product is a direct outcome of our interdisciplinary research into African textiles—from the documented patterns of weaving and surface decoration to the studied techniques of knitting, crochet, and spinning. Whether it's a digital pattern pack derived from archival motifs or a physical accessory informed by traditional craftsmanship, every item connects you to an authentic narrative shaped by material innovation, cultural preservation, and design excellence.

Our physical products are shipped worldwide currently only using DHL. You will be able to track your order from packaging to your front door.

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“ THE INDIGENOUS [TEXTILE] KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM IS, DESPITE ENOURMOUS CHALLENGES, PRACTISED BY DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE AND CULTURES ACCROSS THE AFRICAN CONTINENT CATERING TO VARIOUS SOCIO ECONOMICAL INDIVIDUALS WHOM STILL VALUES THE TRADITIONAL DRESS”

– Judella Conquet

Our Services

Timbuktu Research and Designs activities centers around Africa’s Heritage artifacts, the practices and aesthetics that flows from them.

Design Services

Professional design solutions inspired by Africa’s rich & luxurious aesthetics

Research

Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Africa centred Textile research

Education

Traditional and contemporary practices and theories

Outreach

Direct online and offline engagements in relation to African textiles and its practices

Traditional textile inspirations

The African continent boast of a rich heritage of textile design and practices. With advanced techniques from the beginning of times, Africans continue to be inspired by their rich legacies.

Our values

Africa is a continent with nations that has deep rooted traditions, heritage and practices Governing their societies. We function whit-in the purview of the societies practices, with integrity and respect. Embracing geographical sustainable and responsible conventions to drive innovations towards visionary futures.

Our Mission

Using traditional knowledge and practices surrounding Textile to inform design aesthetics and innovations throughout a variety of areas where textiles can be utilised. Simultaneously we strive to contribute to the preservation of Africa’s boundless Textile heritage and convey the narratives and societal impacts it has and has had on our society’s. 

Research
Design and innovation
Education
Africa

learn with us

We offer a variety of online, offline, self-paced or Live courses. All our courses are related to the textile industry and by extension includes the fashion industry.

Affordable and accessible courses 
All courses have been designed by industry experts or qualified teachers/ instructors
We strive to center African practices in our curriculums
World-wide students and teachers

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