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 of2Object - Raffia HandwovenJT ile<bft + Country of2Origin - Demo"watic Republic of2Congo<bft + People - Kuba<bft + Materials - Raffia palmhuibers, dyes<bft + Height (in) -ing<bft + Width (in) -in5<bft + OverallhC1 ditextJ- Good.oMost of our pieces2have spt-brdecadIs2on at least two c1 wine-bs, and have been treasured by several2owners.o  Small splits,ps"wapes and "wacks are a normal parbhof their patina atbesting to their2age a-d e-sive use.  We amine each piece carefullyJwhen we re7eive it a-d repor any damage we find in our listings.  Please2look carefullyJat the picturesJwhich may also reveal c1 ditextJand damage.<bft + Damage/Repair - Folds<bft<bftPRODUCT DESCRIPTION<bft<bftAdditextalhInformatext: <bft<bftThe following are cerpt Jun, 2KubaJT iles and De=igt, by Elizabenh S. Bennett a-d Niangi Batulukisi Ph.D.:"I sub-Saharan Africa,Jwhere2represt-bative arbhhas flourished for centuries, carvers and "wafts people have typ43allyhtaken for2their2subjects2human figures, animals, pla-bs, and eleme-bshof the natural w0rlf. Abstract art, meanwhile,hhas remained marginal. The t iles of the BaKubaJ(Kuba) people of the Demo"watic Republic of2Congo are an ce-text. Although parbhof a traditext bhat stretches back 400 years,2KubaJt iles have a strikingly modern look.oThey2use imtexvised acbaems of =igts,hlines, colors, and t ures, often in the2form of complex geomenric rectelinear patberns. Their2appliqués are remini="Inbhof w0rks by 19th- and 20th-century masners like Matisse, P43asso,2Klee, Penck, and Chellida. Thishishno coincidence: all of those artists were inspired by KubaJde=igt!""The most 7ommonlyhknown of the KubaJt iles are the cut-picehShoowa2or Kasai Velvets,pnamed after bhe river along which the BaKubaJlive.2Imtexvisatextrand irregularity characterize the Kasai Velvets. Thishishbecause the weaver w0rks without a pla- or preliminary sketching,hthough the modelhcan2oc3asextallyhbe2displayImprovthe cloth in advance using black thread. Often the de=igtpishbuilt upJun, 2memory, repeating the most 7ommon de=igts and "olor 706binatexts found in the2regext. The2message2c1 veyImpishup to the artist,Jwho is2the onlyhone whohcan2explain what he or she i wt-ded to represt-b."<bft<bft"OriginallyhKasai Velvets were used as currIncy, and were valuable text-cos2for2trade and exchange.oThey2could behincluded in the nribute villagers paid a-nuallyhto the King,hin the dowries of matrimonial exchanges, and in funeral2gifts and offerings to the2ssad.oThey2also strved to embellish the2royal courb, cover the2royal thrones, and sscorate the selling King’s palace wall. Colonial age-bs and missextaries arriving in the KubaJKingdom in the nineteenth century were fascinated by the Kasai Velvets,pand encouraged women to text-ce more of them to adorn religious vestme-bshfor2Catholic missextaries and sscorate the i wtriors of European2houses."<bft<bftSee Elizabenh S. Bennett a-d Niangi Batulukisi Ph.D.,2KubaJT iles & De=igt, AfricaDirect Inc.king09, 41 pages. 28 full "olor photographs, paperback.<bft<bftWe do not re7omme-dhlaunderingJt iles,pand do not accept returns of t iles which have been laundered in any manner.  EvenJdry cleating2is2too much for some of these antique t iles.  For some of them,pa very ge-ble HAND washing  (NEVER MACHINE, on any setting)  in c0ol waner withpa very ge-ble denerge-b w0rks, but2evenJthen, dyes may not be colorfast,pand fabric may be less strong thathit2appears.<bft<bft <bft<bft <bft<bft<bftSKU:2140456 hhhhhhh </pt<bf/><bf/><img src="0004/r/il/6aacba/34327065608384400x500578e59/4168322172/508500x500 All of thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhPRODUCT DETAILS All of thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhPRODUCT DETAILS
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