I am a WORKSHOP FACILITATOR IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY. I will run your workshop abroad, ideally in Africa where my skin color allows me to survive without danger to myself. I set up a business there DOING IMPORTs of American goods useful to the dressmaking industry and mainly doing EXPORT of artisanry, textiles and finished dresses and pillows (unstuffed)
I WOULD BE VISITING THE ASHANTI, KENTE, or
MALI TRIBES
I aspire to travel to AFRICA working for a fashion or decor house.
I aspire to enter a country where there is famine, war and refugees and
make hundreds of starving villagers happy; getting their looms started
again, buying their cotton stuff, like this MALI BLUE and the Picasso type
prints above. I know I can bring home to any American business that hires
me, extremely beautiful artworks in the textile and garment line and you
will make l00 times what you paid for me to travel to Africa and start
these ateliers..
PLUS I can shoot a documentary on SETTING UP AFRICAN ATELIERS and do post editing back in America, maybe send you the video tapes fresh off the fire, and we can make extra cash, up in the six figures, to FUND MORE ATELIERS, by getting DISCOVER Channel to show it. WOuldn't that make a million dollars extra? But that part of the 'business' we do as a State incorporated philantropic charity so you get a total tax break on it. We can take the money back to AFRICA as the bicycle wheel foot pedal turned water irritgation system featured in HEROES PBS series which Redford narrated. That is the TV SERIES that inspired my vision originally. You have to order it. The BICYCLE PUMP allows Villagers to bring water from a river to the crops by hose, not bucket. It pumps. 80$ but nobody there has that kind of money. We WILL!
I am also inspired by famed import/exporter and very tasteful Atlanta dealer/ collector MUSEUM LEVEL gallery owner Marla Mallett and her website (her Atlanta store is a virtual museum,) and the website has many pictures of the textile art that she collected. A 4x6 weaving brings a thousand dollars. http://www.marlamallett.com
To understand the entire region, the esthetic traditions, http://students.clarku.edu/~jborgatt/african_textiles.htm
Hope these links still work. I am depending on other websites who don't know I"m alive. Read: http://www.du.edu/duma/africloth/links.html
A SIDELINE would be MUSEUM LEVEL SINGLE PIECE TEXTILES. ASHANTI fabric
is worth a thousand dollars a 4 x 6 long piece in Atlanta Georgia, USA.
READ UP ON THE MALI villages.
Read up on KENTE
CLOTH
http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/kente/strips.htm
featured in this art exhibit, above.
http://www.hamillgallery.com/EXHIBITIONS/Textile.html
Lovely photos of fab stuff on exhibit in a gallery
These are valuable items and be glad folks are beginning to know it!
HUGE collection of photos, videos, stories at
http://www.quiltethnic.com/textiles.html
Then,http://www.adire.clara.net/core.htm
has many other tribes.
and the page at Adire where they tell HOW they are woven:
http://www.adireafricantextiles.com/africantextintro1.htm
Doesn't this appeal to you as a business/ charity both? One half is your regular dress line. For profit, I run your ateliers, set them up all over Africa, suggest starting in ETHIOPIA, a fairly peaceful country although SUDAN is on my mind as there are problems there.
Now, we can buy the famous cheap cotton fabrics in any country of Africa. SENEGAL has the COTTON BROCADE that is more expensive, which their men wear as a robe. Other countries have printed, wild textiles. We can buy in the largest lengths available, use them to create frocks/ dresses/ sportswear/ mens' sports shirts or sell fabric just as it is,by the yard.
I hope that I can move around Africa, locate dressmaking artisans people
who already do their dressmaking work. One artist whose work I found online
at one of these sites uses the FINEST PLAIN, unprinted KIMONA silk
which he buys in JAPAN. AND HAS it printed by Africans and then made into
styles that favor primitive prints. ONLINE< I just found a cheap
THAI business that copies the KIMONO 
shape,
using THAI FABRIC and they make them very cheaply but they still are gorgeous
dresses. PRINTED KIMONO silk is so very costly, there's no way you could
buy the real thing and make inexpensive dresses, but look at this copy.
Women would buy this thing like crazy for at home entertaining. The INDIANS
make block printed cotton bedspreads for almost no cash which are fabulous
fabric, cotton that's printed, charming, folklorico and CHEAP. So my second
choice for a land to use is INDIA.
If I travel to AFRICA, I would also BUY TRIBAL MASKS. PACK THEM 
BETWEEN
THE LAYERS OF FABRIC. Carefully PLASTIC WRAP the MASKS as they WILL definitely
soil the fabric. TO SEE what MASKS GO FOR, $225 to 1,000 dollars usually,
see this MASK WEBSITE.
MARLA MALLETT dot com has prices for her INDIAN TEXTILES in DOLLARS. She sells out of a shop in Atlanta Georgia -- Checkitout. THE PRICES for the fabrics from INDIA, the cotton purses, etc.
E-3970
Chitin Embroidered Bag. Gujarat,
India. 25"x 36"
$465
E-3973
Embroidered Gujarat Toran. India.
50"x 34"`
$175
E-3976
Tie-Dye Shawl with Silver Embroidery.
India. 67"x 68½"
$285
E-4021
Pashtun Tray Cover. Ghazni area,
Katawaz. Afghanistan. 22"x 27½"
$345
The fact that MM can sell folk art at these prices tells me that beside offering a standard ladies dress line, one could have a second high end FOLK ART AND ACCESSORY line you would WHOLESALE TO Galleries, finer department stores, Neimans, Saks & Bloomies. I would supply those in every shipment. So I'd be your man in Havana. Your one woman army until such time as profits enable you to clone me to many villages in Africa.
Signed, your name here, Designer/ ARTIST, BUSINESSWOMAN.