Crucial to Influx 3 (2016) by Gerald Machona & Pak Ndjamena Ndjamena,

Crucial to Influx 3 (2016) by Gerald Machona & Pak Ndjamena Ndjamena, is an attempt to disrupt the 55 minute hour scheme used by Cape Town garment factories, where an assembly line of seamstresses was governed by a clock that would run 55 minutes of production and 5 minutes of recess every hour. Rather than rely on a clock to keep time and metronome the two artists have drawn rhythm from a sewing machine to stitch together dance and installation. Thanks to Romatex Home Textiles for kindly hosting the performance (Friday 10 June at 1pm), to Nazmia Leite of the South African Clothing & Textile Workers Union (SACTWU), and to Jade Nair and Dr Siona O'Connell of the Centre for Curating the Archive at the University of Cape Town for the introductions to SACTWU Industria House.

musterverteilung

1.destroyed_juli_21_2 = 6 m - (überrock)

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2.destroyed_juli_43_2_rapport_kl = 4m - (unterrock)

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 3.destroyed_juli_55_rapport_2_kl = 2m -(tuch)

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4.4c2_40BMrapport = 6 m - (jacki)

bought from the indians in suriname

Stoffe bei alten Meistern-Jean-Étienne Liotard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wearing African Textiles-part 5

Vintage postcard, circa 1950, authors collection. The two ladies at the centre of the photograph wear ikat patterned aso oke strip weave cloth.

Ikat patterned aso oke strip woven cloth, Yoruba, Nigeria, circa 1950.

Wearing African Textiles-part 6

Wearing African Textiles-part 6: an Ewe woman’s cloth

Vintage postcard, “Fantee women”, mailed 1904. The Fante, who live along the coast of Ghana to the west of Accra, do not weave themselves, but wore a wide variety of textiles locally imported from the Ewe and Asante, as well as European and Indian made fabrics. Here the lady seated at front right wears a cloth woven by a male Ewe weaver in what today is the eastern Volta region of Ghana. This type of Ewe cloth with groups of three weft face blocks rather than two, seems to be more typical of the C19th.

Ewe woman’s size cloth, circa 1900.

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