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Type:
Articles
Place:
Madagascar
Imerina
Date:
1987
1988
Notes:
Akotofahana is a technique of sewing silk threads onto silk cloth to create geometric designs. Practiced exclusively in Imerina, it is a dying tradition as the older generation of women weavers die. Doménichini-Andrianina has set about collecting and documenting these design motifs, and she does so from a technical point of view: counting threads and graphically plotting the designs. With mathematical precision, she creates schematic diagrams of several of the named motifs.
