Kuba cloth - Democratic Republic of Congo 89C.01 tables and beautiful framed

and beautiful framed

Improves the indoor climate and air quality

The fine edging is known as “snake’s belly” for its serpent-scale pattern

Each shield is carved from a single piece of Baobab wood — a sacred wood used for medicinal and ritual purposes for centuries — then covered in hundreds of hand-placed black and white beads on manila string in a circular pattern

Kuba cloth - Democratic Republic of Congo 89C.01 tables and beautiful framedA handwoven Kuba cloth from the Democratic Republic of Congo, worked from the fibre of the raffia vinifera palm. Each is the result of many hands: men weave the base cloth on inclined single heddle looms, it is then pounded soft in a mortar, and the women finish it with embroidery, appliqu, patchwork and natural vegetable dyes in the Kuba palette of ivory, brown, clay red and indigo. The patterns are elaborate geometries of squares and rectangles,