#speaking with beads

[fashionbooksmilano]

Speaking with beads

Zulu Arts from Southern Africa

Jean Morris

Text by Eleanor Preston-Whyte

Thames & Hudson, London 1994, 96 pages, 21x25,5cm, ISBN 0-500-277-57-5

euro 22,00

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The beadwork designs of the Zulu-speaking peoples of Southern Africa have evolved from a tradition of craft skills developed over the generations. But the products of this tradition are now fashionable worldwide. This volume presents jewellery, ornamental headdresses, capes, aprons, beaded panels and other decorative forms. The items frequently convey coded messages in a symbolic language, speaking of love, the origins of their makers or simply the influence of local styles. They also "speak" of ethnic identity and of religion, especially in the beadwork named after the Black Messiah, Isaiah Shembe, which uses white beads as a ground for ornate and exquisitely coloured geometrical patterns. And they speak a modern idiom of revitalized skills, whether as the contemporary art form of bead sculpture or as costume jewellery for global markets. The photographs, taken over a period of 20 years, offer a documentation of evolving traditions.

20/10/24

[turtleducsk]

recharging ❄️

[wizardlocation]

trio complete!!!!

[doctorsiren]

Gang I’m seeing Twenty One Pilots today !! 🫶💥

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

Realized I don’t have a lot of photos of my finished beading so trying to remedy that. I need to get a proper work space set up with lighting but for now this at least shows off some of it. I don’t have too much to show since I just started earlier this year.

[smellybead]

Canonically male characters you will always be not male and also probably a lesbian to me

[aphemera]

— Bran thought about it. ❝ Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? ❞

❝ That is the only time a man can be brave, ❞ his father told him.

Ned Stark, Lord of Winterfell

[macsdayoff]

nyello gang currently selling tamagotchi perler bead sprites on my etsy >:) they’re made to order and if u want u can get them as magnets

[speci-society]

At momocon this year someone sitting behind me at a panel had a neon j/dj subatomic supernova ita bag and hand sewn neon j plush and no joke i think about it every single day. I aspire towards that. If this is yours PLEASE speak up. I think about it all the damn time

[patheticlittleguy]

if anyone wants to fix all of my problems by replacing them with being kidnapped and tortured, im free as soon as u can get me in the trunk of your car

[partialnoodle]

I wish I could make friendship bracelets for all my mutuals

[amethyst-halo]

oh god i had an idea for hug time bracelets irl

[spirit-pyrite]

Youer phone number is your phones name btw that’s what it calls itself (the numbers)

[fantasticalleigh]

finally found some star shaped beads, been waiting to make this for a while now 😇

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

Gonna make it into a bolo

[smellybead]

Im sorry but the scene in Jp3 where its all suspenseful and they realise where the satellite phone is and then turn around, the spino standing behind them menacingly with a little silly doodoo doo doo doodoodoo doo ringtone soundeffect is so funny to me