Just been studying some African Textiles.

Since drawing African animal anthro, I have been interested in studying real life African textiles.

1. African textiles are historically made as a gender cooperative artwork. The women gather the materials and the men would do the craftsmanship of making the textile fabric, thus making the works similiar to reproduction. It takes the partnership of both genders to bring forth something new (something that is currently in decline around the this time the 2020s. From my own personal viewpoint, we need more cooperation and community building in this day and age.
2. The symbols are from the African Andrikan Symbology. Examples are the double conjoined hearts which represent “Mother Earth”, and the fern looking one is “Endurance”, and the rings which means “Greatness”, the dual sickles is “Courage”, and I think what looks like a turtle (?) represents “Perserverance”.