FAACCE Verified
"Each panel encodes a Zulu love-letter, the historic isishunka beadwork system in which colour and pattern speak where words may not."
South Africa · Craftsmanship
Beaded Archive
Naledi Khumalo
FAACCE Curated
Kente Vow
Kumasi, Ghana·Craftsmanship
- Medium
- Hand-woven cotton and silk
- Dimensions
- 320 × 110 cm
- Year
- 2024
- Certificate
- FA-2024-0066 →
$ 6,200
Indicative — acquisition is dialogue, not checkout.
Authenticated by the FAACCE Curatorial Council. View certificate.
Story behind the work
Woven on a four-heddle loom that has been in the Asante family for three generations, this cloth carries the Adweneasa motif — 'my skill is exhausted' — traditionally reserved for the moment a master weaver acknowledges they have given the loom everything they know.
A single uncut strip-woven cloth, gold-warp and indigo-weft, finished by hand in Bonwire over fourteen weeks.
Curatorial note
FAACCE Curatorial Council
"Reviewed by the FAACCE Craft Panel for lineage, technique and iconographic accuracy. Master-class provenance confirmed."
