A visit to The Textile Museum in Washington, DC today for the exhibit Weaving Abstraction:
Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa, resulted in several hours of mesmerizing visions in raffia: intricate patterns, fractals, chevrons, texture, and sheer wizardry of craft, skill, and design.
Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa, resulted in several hours of mesmerizing visions in raffia: intricate patterns, fractals, chevrons, texture, and sheer wizardry of craft, skill, and design.
There were 'tufted' boxes, capes, beaded/shelled/tufted belts. The people who created these objects of beauty and wealth were Kuba, Tutsi, Hutu, Shoowa, and more.
Also on display was an exhibit called Second Lives: the Age-Old Art of Recycling Textiles. There were examples from all over the world of how people had taken old fabrics and re-purposed them into new articles of clothing, household objects, etc.
