for the roots

#kangas#lesso

The next-door-woman's kangas are always nicer than mine.

Cotton shift dress, batiked and hand painted, photographed in Sydney.

#khanga #east africa #african print

We stepped through a simple door like all the others. Except after stepping through this one, we were suddenly made so small. We felt uncomfortable, as if something tipped over, we’d be crushed. We hurried through the room of enormous objects. Things were chunky and crudely carved. Hulking brooding shapes. Baskets and bowls big enough to feed a village (and they … Continue reading "Nagaland Style"

Kenya Graduated Personal Tax 20s 1966

Do you know the meanings of Adinkra symbols? “Return and get it” is a symbol of the importance of learning from the past. The literal translation of the word and the symbol is “it is not taboo to fetch what is at risk of being left behind.

"Love Is Like a cough,It Cannot Be Hidden",Swahili Kanga fabric. I want to start including more text on my fabric designs

Do you know the meanings of Adinkra symbols? "He who does not know can know from learning" symbolizes knowledge, lifelong education and a continued quest for knowledge.