Many people contain the dashiki to one style only, this fabric is also another form of Ankara and it gained its popular name from the northern part of the country where it originated from. Just like most African print fabric, this fabrics details and intricate patterns also has meanings attached to it.

The dashiki fabric can be referred to as the most popular form of the African print fabric, it is well known both home and abroad as it found a market place in the united states and its the first African print fabric to be accepted world wide. Top celebrities and Influence-rs like Sammy Davies Junior, Jim Brown, Bill Russel, Beyonce, Solange, Juliet Ibrahim, Chris Brown, Rihanna, Zendaya and a host of others that would take a book to mention have been spotted in this fabric. A short while back, the fabric was only limited to a short caftan style which really was just understating the powerful print, this soon changed when American Teen Kyemah McEntyre broke the internet with her prom dress that was, you guessed it, Made from the Dashiki Fabric.

Although all of these people of course weren’t the first one’s to spot the fabric, they only made it super popular and mainstream that brings me to the elephant in the room the Dashiki has a lot more potential than you might come across, so we’ve decide to bring you other styles you can sew with the dashiki fabric, this is to inspire you and help with the tough choice you have to make between sewing the popular caftan style and going for something different,