330 Melbourne Road, Newport. Melbourne, Australia.

We are specialist African textile traders, importing hand crafted Tanzanian batiki, kikoy, kitenge, khanga, Ankara and African Wax Print. We also carry a large collection of Authentic Vlisco wax prints.

Our Marketplace shopfront trades together with our sewing studio. We have a stunning collection of beautifully made handcrafts directly traded and ethically sourced from Eastern & Southern Africa. We trade directly with our artisans to ensure the income is paid directly to them from the global Marketplace. Our purpose is to connect you with talented artisans and small businesses from throughout Eastern & Southern Africa. We believe that regular, consistent trade and partnership can be effective, empowering, and can support micro business and artisans to have sustainable, secure and valuable employment.

Our Melbourne studio produces our slow fashion, our custom furniture collection, our handcrafts from our directly traded fabrics and batiks including our bags, blankets, masks and homewares. Our freshly roasted collection of East African coffee is available instore together with our direct trade Tanzanian tea.

Opening hours:

Tuesday - Friday 10 - 5 & Saturday 10 - 4

Closed Sunday & Monday

For assistance & enquiries, please contact Erica 0410 622 699 or via erica@eastofafrica.com.au

Handcrafted in Tanga, Tanzania.

Our stunning hand dyed and hand printed collection of batiki is custom made for us in collaboration with the talented Ester and her team.

Each piece of batiki is uniquely beautiful, truly a piece of fabric art. As it is always hand crafted, our batiki is carefully colour mixed, hand stamped and overdyed in a such a way that it can never be reproduced exactly the same.

The fabric is 100% cotton and already softened for wear with the hand dying and washing. The perfect weighted cotton for clothing or homewares.

As our collection is always produced in small batches, our fabric pieces are precious and very limited. Our batiki features in our store in cushion covers, bags, blankets and handcrafted clothing in our slow fashion collection.