Category Archives: Expertise

Ancestral expertise

Ewe weaving / kita cloths Ewe weavers are considered to be the most talented in West Africa. Their clothing, known as kita or kente, can be found in Togo and Benin but is most common in Ghana, where it is worn by almost all of the country’s various tribes. While the Ewe traditionally opt for Ancestral expertise

The art of repair

Kintsugi – a traditional Japanese technique giving new life to broken ceramics When ceramics or porcelains break, the belief is either that repairing them will see them lose some of their original value,  or that they are quite simply lost. The Japanese however have a completely different philosophy, believing that broken ceramics are not irretrievable. The art of repair