Woven Memoir
Loom
Memory
Khulu's grass mats
Khulu's crocheting
Khulu's grass mats
Making from memory, this loom was constructed using a collection of memories of my youth. This piece is a collective memoir of the women whom I witnessed growing up, creating beautiful crafts using the skills that they were taught in Bantu schools, which under the apartheid regime ensured that the black student was taught skills that would keep them inferior in society, skills that would always keep non-whites as subservient beings to white supremacy.
Exploring embodied archives
Technique
Instruction
Box weaving
line 1: over - over - under - under
line 2: under - under - over - over
Tabby weave
line 1: over - under - over
line 2: under - over - under
Soumak weave
line 1: loop around - loop around
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Materials
Wool, timber
Archival Strategy
Start
Tradition
overlay
Threaded rope, timber
Tradition
Threaded rope, wool, timber
Tradition
Transition
Unravel
Khulu's grass mats
Ncane's plastic mats
Khulu's table runner
Khulu's crocheting
Box weave
line 1: over - over - under - under
line 2: under - under - over - over
Handwoven plastic mat
line 1: under - over - loop - under - over - loop
line 2: under - over - loop - under - over - loop
Turkish weave (carpet)
line 1: under - under - loop over - loop over - tie
Tabby weave
line 1: over - under - over
line 2: under - over - under
Threaded rope, wool, timber
Recycled plastic bags
Overlay
Transition
Multiply
Tradition
Threaded rope, wool, timber
Overlay
Threaded rope, timber
Tradition
Transition
Multiply
Tradition
Free
Break