This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google. The most vividly coloured patterns had the same style as that seen in their beaded jewelry, aprons and other utility items. Located in Lagos, Ghana it is designed and conceptualised by Hermann Kamte & Associates, an architectural firm from the Cameroon.
401 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Look at the woman across the street... see the woven, patterned basket she carries on her head, observe the colourful, printed or dyed fabrics used to clothe her. Patterns on masks and textiles were used as a form of identity for tribes and outsiders could be easily identified if their masks and robes were foreign to the area. The core is wrapped in alternatively repeating graphic patterns that are design based in traditional Yoruban culture but appear here in a very modern and striking application.
Ndebele mural designs can communicate information about a family's history and identity. Take
Nowadays, African patterns are more known to be of use as a design material.
Laolu Senbanjo was born in Nigeria and raised with a Yoruba household's culture and mythology. The borders can mirror each other or be asymmetrical but they are generally more complicated than the middle. There are a lot of ways how you can incorporate the design of these African patterns to the modern items that we have today. They often involve cut-out shapes, a repeated motif in a woman's dress, sometimes even like lace - difficult to do with metal. These details are what makes the African patterns very interesting and worth using. Sea shells and fish have beautiful intricate patterning for adornment and coral creates crazy outline shapes. If a purchase made using a Gift Voucher is for more than the amount of the Gift Voucher, the purchaser will be required to pay the extra. Colour is the main feature of his art, be it in print or on canvas, his vibrant sense of the dynamics of colour defines his work.
Shoowa cloth is very structured in comparison and has dense and rhythmical patterning with overcast embroidery and cut-pile designs. to rhythm: The pounding of maize in a bowl feels the same as the stamping of pigment on fabric..... the weaving of hair braids is the same soft rhythmic exercise as plucking at an mbira. Chequerboard black and white triangles, or squares, represent the separation of knowledge and ignorance. All rights reserved. The Ndebele women of Zululand, NW South Africa have been decorating the walls of their houses and compounds for generations- a tradition called ukugwala which showed their design ability as worth of a good wife. I weave Asooke, a traditional wear commonly used among the Yoruba people.
The influence of African masks and figures on his work is clearly seen here in both the style and placement of patterning on the female figure on the left. Firstly, the profile of the building takes its cut-off pyramid shape from an inverted corona that would traditionally be placed on top of a W African, Yoruban caryatid column.