21 March 2010 // Filed under Uncategorized
The first full day at the Binga Craft Centre… I push on with my paper workshop for half the day, with the younger women… the other have to start weaving.
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22 October 2009 // Filed under Zimbabwe weaving project - TNBW + folding
Lake Cariba sunrise
The morning of the day after we arrived in Binga (which is a small town on Lake Kariba in northern Zimbabwe). BEAUTIFUL.
The previous afternoon was spent just meeting the group of women for the first time – and showing them baskets from other places (in last post)
I started the 5 day workshop of with a paper folding exercise - introducing the ladies to creasing and the idea of modelmaking
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22 October 2009 // Filed under Zimbabwe weaving project - TNBW
A room full of women. Waiting to weave.
Me, showing off my collection of baskets collected on my travels - Malaysian, Japanese, South African baskets
the lovely ladies loving the foreign weaves
LOVING it!
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22 October 2009 // Filed under Zimbabwe weaving project - TNBW + connections
This guy was awesome. He said that his ability to carve wood came from a dream, as do all his carvings - from dream to reality without any in-between. Pretty cool
what an amazing chicken coop...
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22 October 2009 // Filed under Zimbabwe weaving project - TNBW + connections
the rank market on the first day of my trip to Zimbabwe earlier this year
fruit in a Japanese supermarket
When I arrived in Zimbabwe (Bulawayo – my birth town) for a series of weaving workshops there with 2 different groups of women weavers, I was taken to the rank market, where a certain pride was shown by the people selling tomatoes and sorghum and so on. It immediately reminded me of the way produce and objects are often proudly and beautifully displayed in Japan – like the fruit in the second photo above…
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