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art galleries, decorators, museum shops
           and private collectors, the tactility of craft
           resonates with their basic need to touch
           and feel things.

           The Ilala Palm collection.
             Basketry has featured for a long time in
           Zulu social life and served mainly as food
           containers.
             Ilala Palm grows on the shores of
           lakes in Southern Africa. The fibres are
           picked up, then boiled and mixed with
           local plants to obtain various colours in
           natural dyes. Art of Connection design
           new original pieces and select patterns,
           they then share with their talented
           weavers to create a prototype. Each
           piece is done in maximum five editions
           to give exclusivity to each client.
             Today only the best weavers can coil
           Ilala palm with such precision, using
           different types of knots to create the
           unique pieces we present in our curated
           collections.                dw

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