The Xhosa and Zulu word for “beauty” is Ubuhle. It is also the right word to describe a new form of bead art, developed by a community of women living in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. “Ubuhle ...

The women who created the artwork in Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence “paint” with beads. Each “canvas” is composed of a myriad of tiny glass beads sewn into black cloth stretched ...

The Society of the Four Arts brings brightness and color to Palm Beach with the art exhibition, Ubuhle Women, Beadwork and the Art of Independence, which opened Nov. 14 and runs through Jan. 17, 2021.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Twenty years ago on a sugar plantation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Bev Gibson and Ntombephi “Induna” Ntobela founded a collective called Ubuhle (pronounced uh-boo-klay), which ...

In his collaborative collection with Barbie and Europa Art, designer Gert-Johan Coetzee references Ndebele print, Xhosa beadwork and draws influences from modest dress as well as Pedi and Zulu ...

Considered one of the continent’s top creatives, he’s garnered a string of awards both locally and abroad, winning the 2015 Vogue Italia Scouting for Africa prize, and named one of the 100 Most ...

Diane Fitzgerald uses beads the way an artist uses color. She buys a palette of beads that she likes and begins to assemble them – incrementally, so the piece evolves as it’s designed. “Beading was a ...

Laduma Ngxokolo, the award winning South African textile and knitwear designer, remembers the first jersey he ever designed and made. His mother - herself a creative and industrious woman who would ...

Most designers draw inspiration from a specific audience or muse, but for his new line of mens knitwear, Laduma Ngxokolo focused on a group dear to his heart, the Xhosa tribe of Port Elizabeth, South ...