Ntama’s floating, narrow lines are loosely inspired by Ashanti Liar’s Cloths. These West African patterns are woven with a floating warp technique, in which warp stripes step across the cloth at regular intervals, producing a fretwork of fine, rhythmic strokes. Named by Western researchers, the cloth was believed to be worn by Ashanti kings to compel people to tell the truth. Ntama’s shifting lines are inset in a pattern that plays with illusion, optics and repetition.

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