Textile work — TIMES

Collection

Fabric

Osogbo,

Textile archive

Hand-dyed

Community studio

Thread as witness

Cloth holds time differently from stone or pigment: it folds, frays, and carries dye and touch like a diary written in smell and texture. The pieces gathered here trace how pattern, narrative, and the body that wears the work stay in dialogue across traditions and studios.

We document them with the same care given to sculpture—measuring tension in weave, noting where repair becomes ornament, where the repeat breaks deliberately to mark a human decision.

Medium

Cotton, indigo resist

Dimensions

240cm × 120cm

Origin

Osun region

Period

2019–2024

Condition

Stable

Provenance

Weaver cooperative

Technique

Stitch-resist & stitch

What the hands already knew

Irregularities are not flaws; they are signatures of breath and fatigue, of a loom obeyed and gently argued with. When you stand close, you meet a rhythm older than the room.

Scroll through the sequence below as you would unfold a length of cloth: slowly, with respect for the weight of each section.

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