Sew With African Prints

EASY MONTHLY SEWING KITS BRINGING A TOUCH OF AFRICA TO YOUR HOME

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CLOTHES YOU COULD MAKE

HOW IT WORKS

Here is how the subscription works.

Choose a Box,

Subscribe to a Plan

Sewist box includes fabrics and sewing project.

Save upto 20% off monthly with a 6 or 12month commitment plan,

Artisans Prepare,

We Pack, We Ship

Fabrics are sourced from different African country suppliers monthly. We pack up, box up and ship off your box with love to your home.

You Enjoy, You Sew, You change your wardrobe

Shipping dates = 15th-28th each month. Once received, you get sewing with our kits! Do share inside our facebook group too!

INSIDE OUR SEWIST BOX

Experience a touch of Africa

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New African country monthly

Yardage of African fabric for the sewing project
Sewing project with pattern, threads, trims etc

African Fabric Swatch Card

Fabric Information card
Surprise Gift from me to you

Other boxes: Afro Stylist / Afro Word / Afro Jewels / Africa Culture box
Our products are sourced directly from African suppliers unless stated otherwise,
Our boxes are recyclable and our mailer bags and tissue paper are eco friendly

WHY WAX+WRAPS

Wax+Wraps was founded because Founder Jacqueline believes in African development using entrepreneurship and Trade over Aid. Each month she sources fabrics from a new African supplier for the monthly boxes and our online shop. This enables textile makers across Africa to gain 100s of new clients via our subscription box orders and this trade contributes to the change Jacqueline hopes to see in Africa through the vehicle of fashion,

Pictured are just some of the suppliers we work with at Wax+Wraps

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THE FINAL HOORAH!

This month we give a final shout out to the summer heat as we prepare for the cooler and darker months to settle in. Get ready to make an denim look style that you can adapt by increasing the leg length to make it suitable for winter too! We head over to the Gambia using their traditional batik textiles. This West African fabric celebrates the beautiful colourful continent of Africa.

This months sewing project includes an interesting surprise gift for you.

With a beautiful box you are guaranteed to kickstart your month in style with another fresh taste of Africa.

FEATURING: 2-3 yards batik handprinted fabric, thread, and relevant notions to match, plus a special surprise gift for you and an African Prints Sewing Club badge for newbies!

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PREVIOUS BOXES

August SEWIST Box

July SEWIST Box

June SEWIST Box

May SEWIST Box

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REAL CUSTOMERS

Carolyn
I've had my eye on this Bogolan stretch fabric ever since it appeared in the Wax and Wraps shop. In spite of years of garment making experience, I had never sewn with Jersey or stretch fabric before so this is a first for me! I picked a simple pattern to start with and I'm so delighted with the results... Lovely fabric, easy to work with a it drapes beautifully.
Adelle
I love the new kit format of the boxes! That they have everything to create a specific garment is brilliant! Hands up I’m not sure I’ll make a bomber jacket purely because I already made 3 last year but I am so impressed with the change I might make it anyway, can you have enough bomber jackets really?
A. Pears
I’ve been a subscriber from the start and I love all my fabric but this is the fabric I’m most likely to use rather than stroke and then put back in the box!
Carolyn
Christmas apron made from November's wax print and a treasure trove of beautiful things in my Christmas box. The fabrics are exquisite! I made a little Christmas tree from one of the patterns in the box too. This is such a lovely group to be part of. Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas!!! XX
Catalina
My box - well, tube - arrived today!! I'm so happy! Unwrapping it felt like Christmas. The fabrics are so beautiful and I can't wait to use them! ... I got the exact two fabrics I liked best, which is the sort of coincidence I can get behind. I'm pleased I got the tube, too, since it's really pretty. I'm so looking forward to next month's box, and I'll obviously be posting when I've made something out of the Ghanian fabrics!!
Pippa
I collected mine today. I love the vibrant fabrics, the Tshirt pattern and beautiful tube it came in. Thank you.
Jojo
Waaaaaaahh I'm so happy my box did arrive!!! Loving my fabrics and the fabric swatch is absolutely gorgeous!!! This box is even better than expected and everything has been put together with great care and love in even the smallest detail! Sewing pattern, threads that match my fabrics, a pencil, a fabric swatch , a personal note, card #1 for my card deck collection and my sewing club button!!
Penny
So I received all of these beauties today. Never sewn with African wax fabric so a first for me. Looking forward to trying this t-shirt pattern too!
(That orange and black fabric though!)
Lorraine
Ok so as many others I am not sure that I would have picked the colours but thats what is great about the box. You get to use colours that you would normally avoid and it stretches your mind and imagination. The more I look at them the more I love them
Cary
Love my tube!!!!! Would’ve liked a batik fabric but love what I did get! I tried not to watch the unboxing or look at pictures before hand as I think half the fun is in a surprise. Not sure what I’m going to make yet
Tayo
I got my box today, yayyy!! I have been seeing the very pretty tubes and was hoping I would get one of those too but the box is pretty too. I would also have liked to have received some particular prints too, like some people have mentioned. However, I signed up to this with a clear understanding that the nature of the subscription is that we get different things every month. I was mentally prepared to like some and not like some, which is just down to personal preferences. I am quite happy with the materials I received this month, although I would personally have chosen other colours, given a choice. (I am secretly envious of some of your fabrics to be honest.😁) I think Jacqueline has put a lot of thought and time into the boxes and I really appreciate all the little personal touches. (I love the free pattern, thanks babe!) I am looking forward to next month's surprise box/tube already!
Edie
Love my box! Creative brain in overdrive!
Carolyn
Absolutely delighted with my first wax and prints box. Thank you Jacqueline for brightening my day! Looking forward to trying the woven t-shirt pattern in the blue and yellow. Plenty of fabric to play with!
Sonia
Just received my box. LOVE IT!!!! The Kente is beautiful. Already looking forward to the next one
Yvonne
WOW WOW WOW! Just received my box (or should I say Tube!). The fabrics are great and the pattern is too (as a novice sewer I would have liked instructions, but I'm sure I can figure it out lol) Love it all and cant wait to get sewing. Looking forward to next months already!
Clare
Just look at this gorgeous batik in my box. What to make? Think I’ll just hug it for a while!
Dorcas
Jacqueline well done on your first boxes/tubes! I see it's a mixed reaction but you are handling everything so professionally because your customer service skills are brilliant...Your business ethos is excellent and I pray God will bless and multiply every single pound and give you double what you give to our people
Gillian
I would second the excellent customer service, you have gone above and beyond. Thank you.
Elve
How gorgeous is this - a lovely lovely surprise, not a box, a gorgeous tube, packed with two lots of wonderful fabric, a smashing printed woven T pattern, sewing thread to match the fabric, a pretty pencil, the quirky sewing illustration on a playing card and a badge. It is joyous and I am thrilled