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Allina Ndebele Quotes

born 1939 South Africa

Allina Ndebele (née Khumalo) (born 10 December 1939) is a South African artist and weaver known for her tapestries. She was born in Swart Mfolozi in KwaZulu Natal Province and after training to be a nurse se she secured a job as a translator for Peder and Ulla Gowenius who were in the process of setting up what was to be Rorke's Drift Art and Craft Centre.

South Africa
Artists

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"These animals are markers of economic wellbeing and serve as spiritual links with the ancestors."

"When I work I see the picture and my hand will go over the wool and I know where I will have the image. Sometimes I change it again and take out all the wool, start over till I am happy with it. It is a slow process, for painters it must be easier."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Allina Ndebele (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.