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African Threads Posted on March 19, 2016 by Val HearderJuly 8, 2016
Shangaan woman with carving

  We met this delight woman in Limpopo Province when we toured there last year. Her husband is a famous carver and she is is second wife. My friend Janine Hunt from Bainbridge Island was in our group and both … Continue reading →

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Judy’s Journal: I feel as if I know her

African Threads Posted on October 31, 2015 by Val HearderJuly 8, 2016

Judy Martin wrote a lovely piece about some embroideries I’d bought on my recent tour to South Africa. These highly expressive pieces were made by women in the Isipethu Sewing Collective in KwaZulu Natal. We visit this group each time we take our tour to South Africa.

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Posted in AfricanThreads, Community, Embroidery/Stichery, Grandmothers of Africa, South African Tour | Tagged embroidery, Isipethu, KwaZulu Natal, sewing collective, South Africa, tour to South Africa | Leave a Reply

More fabric shopping in South Africa! Part 2

African Threads Posted on June 11, 2015 by Val HearderJuly 8, 2016

I’ll write more about the various adventures we had in South Africa including more in depth information about shwe-shwe fabric pictured above, which is the iconic fabric of South Africa. I want to tell you about the herd of elephants that surrounded our safari trucks, the leopard we saw and the Zulu baskets and beadwork!

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Posted in AfricanThreads, Fabric, Fabric shopping, Grandmothers of Africa, South African Tour, Travel | Tagged African trading store, elephants, fabric shopping, iconic fabric of South Africa, Limpopo, printed blouses, safari trucks, shwe-shwe, South Africa, Venda | 8 Replies

Embroidery Bearing Witness

African Threads Posted on September 4, 2014 by Val HearderJuly 8, 2016

On September 7th, a fascinating exhibition of South African embroideries will open at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles. It’s called, Bearing Witness: Embroidery as History in Post-Apartheid South Africa It will feature the work of two groups that I’ve been closely connected to over the past 10 years through my fair trade imports, African Threads and my cultural tours to South Africa.

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Posted in AfricanThreads, art, Embroidery/Stichery, Grandmothers of Africa, Social Commentary, South African Tour, Travel | Tagged African Threads, Bearing Witness, Cultural tour, embroidery, Fowler Museum, Kaross, Mapula, post-apartheid, South Africa, textile tour, UCLA | 2 Replies

150 pairs of Granny Glasses

African Threads Posted on February 22, 2014 by Val HearderJuly 8, 2016

Thanks to the Lunenburg Rotary Club and the Tantallon Bay Grans for donating 150 pairs of reading glasses. This wonderful pile of glasses is headed to South Africa with me next week. The glasses will be given to women artisans in South Africa.

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Grannies in Solidarity

African Threads Posted on February 27, 2013 by Val HearderJuly 8, 2016

This hand embroidered square was made by the Intuthuko Sewing Group from Etwatwa Township near Johannesburg. There is wonderful solidarity between Grandmothers in Africa and Canada.  To learn more about the remarkable Grandmothers Campaign to support African Grannies, check out … Continue reading →

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