Woven Legacies: Innovation & Tradition

Timed Online Auction, 2 - 24 February 2025

Innovation & Tradition
About the Session

‘Woven Legacies: Innovation & Tradition’ highlights a diverse range of materials, techniques, and processes from various regions, including Southern, Central and Western Africa. These works coalesce utility, aesthetics and cultural identity. From the tactile threads of textiles to the intricate blending of natural fibres in baskets and the sculptural forms of steel, copper, brass and beads, the concept of weaving is reimagined as a metaphor for connection, storytelling and the passing on of tradition.


Sold for

ZAR 5 628
Lot 19
  • Leila Walter; Al Dente, 2024


Lot Estimate
ZAR 3 500 - 4 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 5 628

About this Item

South Africa 21st century
Al Dente, 2024
handwoven cotton, silk, Ilala palm, bamboo and brass tapestry
120 by 102,5cm

Notes

In Southern Africa our weaving tradition is mainly centred on basket weaving, which uses locally occurring natural reed and palm. In this work I was inspired to rework traditional weaving materials and techniques, reimagining the 'Ilala palm' typically used in basketry into the evolution of a new form which draws directly from the land and broader history of traditional textile production through the structure of the loom.

- Leila Walter

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