| jpweil00@gte.net
Steve, The one thing I noticed about the embroideries you present is the
unusual emanations surrounding them. There are "branches", or "limbs" or
"protuberances" surrounding each of the major figures on these
embroideries. Is there a significance to this prickliness? Do the other
two types of embroideries you mention, the dowry and funerary types, also
incorporate such appendages? I do not recall other types of weavings with
so many things sticking out. Being protective devices for children, is
there some significance to the almost cactus-needle edges to the figures
in the weavings? Curiously yours, Patrick Weiler |