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Zulu Basketry
Jannie van Heerden
Zulu Basketry
Jannie van Heerden
Author
Jannie van Heerden is the retired Deputy Chief Education Specialist of the
Department of Education in KwaZulu-Natal. He spent 16 years documenting
basket weavers in the field and at publication, was the departmental head in charge of
Visual Arts and Design education.
Beauty Ngxongo
Reuben Ndwandwe
'Zulu Basketry' is a definitive guide to contemporary basket weaving from
Zululand in Natal. Focus is places on the master weavers from the Hlabisa area,
such as the late Reuben Ndwandwe and Beauty Ngxongo, both represented in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan
Museum.
Other basket weavers include such as Laurentia Dlamini - Edna
Ngxongo - Vina Ndwandwe - Norah Manqele - Flora Hlabisa - Alina Mlotshwa -
Lucy Mlotshwa and Angeline Masuku and be found in other museums and private collections world-wide.
Wire basket weavers include Elliot Mkhize - Dudu Mgadi - Zodwa Maphumulo and
Ntombifuthi Magwaza.
'Zulu Basketry' provides a comprehensive historical overview of basket weaving
within the Zulu social, cultural and philosophical context is traced from
early documents and collections to contemporary interviews with basket
weavers.
'Zulu Basketry' is the first publication that deals comprehensively with weavers as
artists, tracing their creative development over a 15 year period. Crafts
have played an important role in the cultural survival of the Zulu people. Basketry remained in the school curriculum during the apartheid years. Basket weavers and other craftspeople empowered
themselves as entrepreneurs in their own right, to earn a sustainable living.
Techniques, materials and basketry methods are discussed in detail from
making indigenous dyes to actual weaving techniques.
Zulu Basketry
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