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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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