In 1900, Warren Clay Coleman was considered “the richest Black man in America” after opening the first Black-owned and -operated textile factory in the United States, which still stands today ...

At the company’s ultra-modern laboratory ... Kate headed around 84 miles west to Lancaster to another factory to see another heritage textile company: Standfast & Barracks, which is a printworks ...

pioneered the modern textile industry in Ghana. With a well-equipped factory in Akosombo and sales and administrative offices in Accra, it continues to offer customers trendy and quality wax prints.