A Keiskamma Gem for sale
The Cream Tapestry is the second of three important history tapestries to be made by the women artists of the Keiskamma Art Project. With a history as rich as that of the Eastern Cape there are stories within stories and the women are eager to relate them. Although this tapestry is not as long as the Keiskamma History Tapestry, which hangs in the Parliament Building in Cape Town, the cream tapestry tells the same history using a different perspective.
The stories have been embroidered with hand dyed mohair wool and embellished with beads onto a cream hessian base and show a colourful and diverse historical account of the life and times of people from the Eastern Cape. This work measures approximately 80 metres by 50cm and is on loan to  of Street Somerset who have kindly agreed to exhibit it in their International Office in the UK. Should this tapestry be sold it will enable the Keiskamma Art Project to continue employing the women artists and embroiderers.
............ “We want to show how we are coming from the darkness into the light...how our hope brings life. We were in the dark. We were hungry, but we created our future. We’ve grown back. We have restored our lives.” - Nokwanda Makubalo Keiskamma Art Project
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