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.

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  • Gcinani Duma; A Threads of Africa copper and silver wire bowl, 2018
  • Gcinani Duma; A Threads of Africa copper and silver wire bowl, 2018
  • Gcinani Duma; A Threads of Africa copper and silver wire bowl, 2018
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ZAR 9 000 - 12 000

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Gcinani Duma
South Africa 1987-
A Threads of Africa copper and silver wire bowl, 2018

inscribed with the artist's name, dated 2018, inscribed with the medium and numbered 11443 on a Threads of Africa tag and a Threads of Africa label attached to the rim

copper and silver wire
9cm high, 14,5cm diameter

Provenance

Threads of Africa.

Notes

Gcinani Duma is one of the Master Weavers of the Threads of Africa Project, a collaboration with the Mdukatshani Development Trust, based in the Thukela Valley of KwaZulu Natal. The project aims to promote the centuries-old African practice of metal work in a contemporary context - giving light to the painstaking art of basket weaving with metals. As put by David John Moon 'an experienced weaver may progress less than one centimetre a day, depending on the intricacy of the design and the size of the bowl. The correct tension is vital to ensure balance and proportion, and is complicated by the fact that each metal has a different density, even if the wire is the same thickness.' 1

Each Threads of Africa bowl has its own unique pattern. Weavers hand-coil fine wire around a clay pot, which is used as a mould and broken out carefully once the form is complete. The patterns are developed from age-old weaving techniques used in the region, inspired by the rich landscape of KwaZulu-Natal.2

1. David John Moon, (2011) The Earth is Watching Us: Threads of Africa, page 11.

Literature

2. Julia Meintjies (2025) Threads of Africa, 3D, online, https://www.juliameintjes.co.za/product-category/3d/ accessed 17 January 2025.

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