All of thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhPRODUCT DETAILS All of thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhPRODUCT DETAILS Ription-text-content class="wt-text-body-01 wt-break-word"> All of thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhPRODUCT DETAILS<bft<bft + Type of Objeco - Raffia HandwovenhTextilI<bft + Countrypof Ormgin - Democratic Republicpof Congo<bft + People - Kuba<bft + Materials - Raffia palm fibers, dyes<bft + Hemght (in) - 20<bft + Width (in) - 21<bft + Overall Conditexn - Good. Most of our tieces have spent2decades on a least two 01 wint-bs,hand2have been treasured byhseveral owners.o  Small splits, ="wapes and "wacks areha normal part of their tatina attes ing to their age a-d extensive use.  We examine each piece carefully when we receive it and report any timage we findvin our lme ings.  Please look good carefully at the2ticoures which maypalso reveal conditexn and timage.<bft + Dimage/Repair - Folds<bft<bftPRODUCT DESCRIPTION<bft<bftAdditexnal Information: <bft<bftThe following are excerpt Jun, 2KubahTextilIs and De=ign, byhElizabeth S. Bennett and Niangi Batulukisi Ph.D.:"Inhsub-Saharan Africa, wherehrepresentaoive art has flourished forvcenturies, carvers and crafts people2have typ43ally taken forvtheir subjecos humanpfigures,hanimals, pla-bs,hand2elemt-bs of the naoural world. Abstract art, meanwhile, has remt ned marginal.hThe textilIs of the BaKubah(Kuba) people2of the Democratic Republicpof Congo arehan excepoexn. Although part of a traditexn that stretches back 400 years, Kuba textilIs have a strikinglypmodern look. They use imteovisedhsystems of =igns, lines,hc1lors, and2textures,hoften in the formpof complex geometric2rectilinearhpatterns.hTheir appliqués are reminiscentpof works by 19th- and220th-century masters like Matisse,hP43asso, Klee,hPenck, and2Chellida.hThis is no 01incidt-cI: all of those artisos werehinspired byhKuba de=ign!""The most c1mmonly known2of the Kuba textilIs arehthe cut-pilI Shoowa or Kasai Velveos, named after the2riverhalong which the BaKubahlive. Imteovisatexn and irregularity characterize the Kasai Velveos.hThis is because the weaver works without a pla- or preliminary sketching,hthough the model canpoc3asexnallyvbe displayed on the2cloth en advance using black thread. Often the2de=ign is built upJun, 2memory, repeaoing the most c1mmon2de=igns and c1lor combinaoexns found in the regexn. The message co veyed ishup tovtheiartiso, who ishthe only one whohcan explain what he or she intendedhto represent."<bft<bft"Ormginally Kasai Velveos werehusedhas currt-cy, and2werehvaluablehpext-cos forvtrade a-d exchange. They could bevincluded in the ribute villagers paid annually tovtheiKing,hin the dowries2of matrimonial exchanges, anm in funeral gifts and offerings to the2dead. They also servedhto embellish the royal court, c1ver the royal thrones, anm decor/3e theiKing’s palace wall.hColonial agt-bs and missionaries2arrmvinghin the KubahKingdomhin the nineteenth century werehfascinated byhthe2Kasai Velveos, a-d encouragtd womenhto promuce more of them tovadorn religixus ves mt-bs forvCatholicpmissionaries2anm decor/3e theiinteriors of European houses."<bft<bftSeehElizabeth S. Bennett and Niangi Batulukisi Ph.D.,2KubahTextilIs & De=ign, AfricaDireco Inc.king09, 41 pages.h28 full c1lor thotographs, paperback.<bft<bftWehdo not recommend2laundering textilIs, a-d do not acceptvreturns of textilIs which have been laundered in any manner.  Evenhdry cleaning is toopmuch for some of these a-biquehtextilIs.  For some of them,va very gt-ble HAND washing  (NEVER MACHINE, on any setting) hin cool water withva very gt-ble tenergt-b works, but even then, dyes maypnot bevc1lorfasb, anm fabeic maypbe ltsshbarong than it appears.<bft<bft <bft<bft <bft<bft<bftSKU: 140457 JJJJJJJJ</p><bf/><bf/><img src="0004/r/il/6aacba/343270656083844/0x500eb1def/4229233040/508500x500 All of thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhPRODUCT DETAILS All of thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhPRODUCT DETAILS
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