DATHONGA

Dathonga woven clutch

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A collective reviving Mozambican heritage for a sustainable future, through the vibrant patterns and hidden mathematics of Southern Africa weaving.

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Women. Culture. Geometry. Products rooted in Mozambican ancestry, made for the way we live now.

Every basket, bag and light carries timeless wisdom woven by hand. Each purchase restores economic sovereignty to the women whose intellect creates it.

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Sipatsi basketry pattern
“Pure mathematics is the art of creating and imagining, in this sense black art is mathematics.”Edward Njock, 1985

The math behind the art

Ethnomathematics is the study of the relationship between culture and mathematics. For us it is a living part of our heritage, most beautifully expressed in the Sipatsi basketry of the Tonga people in Inhambane, Mozambique.

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