Designer Rami Tareef

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Designer Rami Tareef born in Israel in 1980, graduated b.des degree from the industrial design department, Bezalel academy of art and design Jerusalem. Designer at D-vision program for development and industrial design creates chairs with geometric patterns by weaving and wrapping cords around the steel frames of the chairs. These chairs are the product of Tareefs COD project. (crafts oriented design) in which this designer aims to update and preserve the traditional weaving technique. His work is so contemporary and up to date but is has kept the tradition of weaving. He has exhibited in many places his last was at the  Super design gallery for London's design week in 2012.

Looking at weaving in a contemporary way.

I have started to look at designers who works with weave or has been inspired by weaving and how these designers are making weave more contemporary and update but still using the traditional weaving techniques.




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  Looking through view magazine i came across this image.
This is Dolce and Gabbana's spring-summer 13 collection
i then went looking for more of his collection and its was not only full of bold stripes, straw and woven manipulated pieces turned into bustiers re-working the classic basket but the full use of exciting summer colours and the embroidery work makes this collection full of fun.
The methods of construction here is very much an influence on my own work.

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Yarns for weaving.



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The yarns for weaving come in various forms and qualities, in the past these were spun from local grown cotton or unravelled from cotton and silk cloths imported from different countries. Various colours of yarn maybe combined in particular ways to reflect the symbolic significance of the cloth. The quality of the yarns used in the weaving of the cloth reflects on the level of prestigious and are most highly valued.

Tradition is that kente cloth is woven manly by men, woman in the past played a significant role by spinning the cotton into yarns and the dying of the yarn to get it's desired colour. Today factories have replaced this so they mainly sew the strips together.

Weaving equipment



Weaving apparatus are hand made by the weavers themselves or by others who have specialized in making equipment . A set of weaving apparatus will include the loom, which is normally constructed with wood. A set of two or six heddles attrached to threads with pulleys inserted in them, beaters and a sword stick. These looms like motifs in cloth have their own symbloic meanings and are accorded with a great deal of respect.

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Authentic printed kente cloth on vans.

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As i was searching the internet i came across these authentic Kente cloth print vans made in the USA in 1993.

Kente cloth

Woman may either wear one larger piece of Kente cloth or a combination of two or three pieces ranging from 5-12 strips, 20 inches to 48 inches wide on average 6ft long. These are wrapped around the body either with or without a matching blouse








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Ewe Kente cloth.

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Ewe Kente cloth are some of the most highly prized by collectors on African textiles worldwide for the sheer skill and variety their Exhibit.