Made by Teresa (Resi) in mark Lulaj, with a four thread loom. Resi is a good friend of Drande's family -Drande is the owner. She is young, she looks young, she has energy, a feature one often sees in female characters in this area; she can look at you in a way you know you have done something wr ...
Vegan Leather
"Vegan Leather!" He was a big lad, good build, certainly one of those who practiced sports at some college in the USA. "you're pulling my leg" she said with her Southern England accent. "Hey lady, you say things like that to a guy where I come from..." "I mean, you're joking" "Hey! No joke! Ve ...
From tree to planter
At first a tree. Then Vincent strips the bark from a Mutuba tree in the countryside nearby Masaka, off Lake Victoria in Uganda and pounds it with his father using a wooden mallet, under a banana leaf shack. The children watch them as they work on the bark for hours, chatting ...
Worthy of a National Museum
"Meet one my editors" she said with one of her special smiles as I stood in the hall feeling somehow under scrutiny while a bunch of unpaired eyeballs followed the interaction from the gray wall. Le Piscine, National Gallery of Modern Art of the city of Roubaix opened its doors to a retrospect ...
Mutuba
Bark cloth is the result of a perfect harmony between mankind and nature. Harvesting and preparing bark cloth is a tradition of the Baganda tribe, an exceptional art passed on through generations for more than 600 years. Nowadays, only a few families still possess the knowledge that allows a ...
Bright new days ahead
Cimi. An energetic man. His father was famous for his resistance to change, a hero defending a tradition so old no one thought it would even be past over to next generation. A superficial observer would have mistaken that "resistance" with a somewhat negative attitude towards life. None of that. ...
The right strategy
Continued from business-meeting-with-style The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the large room in the botanical garden in Amsterdam, where the group of "experts" debated about the future of design in a relaxed atmosphere, all the participants focusing in a stimulating conversation. "Is this ...