Shoowa Design: African Textiles from the Kingdom of Kuba

Meurant, Georges

ISBN 10: 0500973318 / ISBN 13: 9780500973318

Published by Thames & Hudson, 1999

About this Item

Large hardcover in jacket, 205 pages, index, page with motif explanations, glossary, bibliography. Many color and b + w plates and illustrations throughout. Book is quite solid and square. Light rubbing to jacket with light scratching; publisher barcode sticker at rear. Mild reference wear, age-toning to the pages. Only real flaws are light staining to exterior back bottom edges board and at front bottom corner, with both areas obviously behind jacket. Very decent reference copy.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1745020113938

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shoowa Design: African Textiles from the Kingdom of Kuba
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500973318
• ISBN 13: 9780500973318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The Shoowa people, a small tribe from the kingdom of Kuba, now Zaire, have been designing and making embroidered textiles for hundreds of years. With their complex geometrical patterning and bold colours, these works of art were used in a variety of ways by the Shoowas, as status symbols, dowries, shrouds, religious vestments or as a type of currency. Genuine production ceased around 1905, with the result that they have become collectors' items. This is a study of these textiles and their history. 100 designs have been selected, photographed and analyzed. Diagrams show each design's development from basic motif to complicated pattern. The history of the Shoowa people is traced and the various influences on their designs, such as prehistoric art are discussed.