Telephone Wire Basket
We saw this large telephone wire basket at the African Art Centre in Durban, South Africa. Vibrant colour and textur
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African Beaded Skirt
Detail of a beautifully textured Shangaan beaded fertility apron, Limpopo Province in South Africa.
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Indigo and Clay
Deeply textured hand built pots by a Zulu craftsman paired with indigo dyed cotton. Love being in South Africa.
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Textured Tuesdays
This stack of folded kuba raffia cloth exudes texture, colour and energy. Abstract designs are appliquéd on to a background fabic. The colours suggest the essence of Africa. I spotted these fabrics when we visited Kim Sacks Gallery in Johannesburg on our last tour to South Africa.
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Textured Tuesdays
The Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, Japan. We got up at 4:30 am to get to the market and see the fresh fish ready for sale and distribution. it was full of pattern and texture. These are fresh octopus.
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Textured Tuesday
Whalebone vertebrae, many hundreds of years old. I found this at Red Bay Labrador at the earliest known Basque Settlement in North America. the Basque hunted whale and returned to Spain with the oil. There are 9 holes drilled in the centre of the vertebrae, perhaps made by researchers looking at the DNA of the whale, I don’t know.
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Textured Tuesday
I photographed this detail from a piece of handwoven raffia cloth in a shop in South Africa. Decorated with beads and cowrie shells. Some of the squares are dyed with indigo. It has a kind of pom-pom edging.
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