We were fortunate to get our hands on this wonderful Shoowa Kuba textile collection. We estimate that many of these individual pieces were handwoven in the early 1960s.
The Shoowa people, a small tribe from the kingdom of Kuba, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, have been designing and making embroidered textiles for hundreds of years. With their complex geometrical patterning, these intricate works of art were used in a variety of ways by the Shoowa, as status symbols, dowries, shrouds, religious investments or as a type of currency.
A truly unique piece of African Art that can be used within the home as a table runner, throw, or wall hanging, with many of our customers creating their own amazing works of textile art often with a stunning gallery wall using shoowa textiles.
Measures 24" x 22 1/2" with fringe
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