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NARROW WEAVE TEXTILE, GHANA Factory-made textile referencing traditional narrow strip weaving, beige field with regular spaced yellow lines crossing the vertical direction of the weave while running parallel to the length of the textile, many tiny holes encircled with stitching. . These new textiles described by John Picton in the Introduction to the catalogue of the textile exhibition he curated in London in 1995 “The emphasis is upon innovative responses to changing circumstances, in which artist have developed traditions of practice by means of the possibilities offered by new materials and technology… the intention is thereby to place the traditions inherited from the past within the wider context of the developments of the present century.”length 208cmLITERATURE: John Picton, 1995, The Art of African Textiles. Technology, Tradition and Lurex, London, Barbican Art Gallery, Lund Humphries Publishers, 1995, p. 12. Image of garments, p.15.PROVENANCEBoth textiles previously sold on Welz Auctions in 2017. PROVENANCEPROVENANCE Previously sold Stephan Welz & Co, Cape Town, October 2017, lot 238These new textiles described by John Picton in the Introduction to the catalogue of the textile exhibition he curated in London in 1995 “The emphasis is upon innovative responses to changing circumstances, in which artist have developed traditions of practice by means of the possibilities offered by new materials and technology… the intention is thereby to place the traditions inherited from the past within the wider context of the developments of the present century.” 208cm highLITERATURE John Picton, 1995, The Art of African Textiles. Technology, Tradition and Lurex, London, Barbican Art Gallery, Lund Humphries Publishers, 1995, p. 12. Image of garments, p.15.