Tapestries with the star signs as motive








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Zodiac signs tapestries

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The Making of a Tapestry

40 women weave, they are artists, for when weaving a design they imbue it with their own flavour, their own interpretation of line, colour and form. Each individual design of the 5, 10 or 20 limited editions is therefore different. You may have the same design as 10 other mortals on planet Earth, but yours my friend is indisputably one of a kind.
Even designs of foreign artists and designers have been woven satisfactorily for all concerned. This group of weavers has developed their own responsibility and is proud of their work. Every single woman has become so ambitious that she wants to weave and finish her tapestry herself and nobody else should be on her loom. At the end the tapestry must be her own work. This is the policy of the management. Other weavers enjoy weaving in a group of 4 or more, and together they weave on the piece as a team and complete the tapestry successfully so that it emerges as woven with one hand; the Tampa project has proven it.The staff as a team of PHUMALANGA SWAZI HAND, SWAZILAND TAPESTRIES, consists out of 16 weavers, 5 advanced weavers, 8 spinners, 10 carders, 3 washing women,
one dyer, cleaner and sewer plus one lady for public relations, one for office work and one for stock taking. In total 48 Swazi women are employed at ENDLOANE STUDIOS (PTY) LTD. The capacity of the employees at the workshop could be doubled at least should the market for the tapestries one-day expand , the structure of the workshop will promote spinners to weavers and carders to spinners. New talented women to train to card are easily found and incorporated into the staff within a short period of time.

The material used for the weavings is mainly the hair of the Angora goats. All the work from washing, spinning, dying and weaving is done on the premisis. Phumalanga Tapestries is world renown for its exeptional high quality of weavings and exqusite tapestries