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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The Tutsi community had a longstanding tradition of being the primary practitioners of basket weaving in Rwanda. Traditionally, Tutsi women were actively involved in this craft. They dedicated considerable time and patience to create intricate baskets that adorned Tutsi homes with an array of vibrant colours and contrasting patterns, transforming domestic interiors from floor to ceiling. 1
Now however, all tribes have learnt to do weaving and as a result, what used to be referred to as "Tutsi" baskets, are now called peace baskets.
- Binky Newman, Design Afrika
1. Yaëlle Biro (2000) 'Tutsi Basketry', in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Design Afrika Collection
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