more malawi beauties
When I posted the photograph of the basket full of chitenjes-Malawi wrapping cloths-last week, I was thrilled and enchanted by the colours, although I only posted a few sitting on the top of my basket. Marty asked me if they came in a range of colours, apart from the autumnal rusts and pinks I had shown…
…well, yes they do. Kristie, my son’s girlfriend, spent her summer working in medical centres in rural Malawi. She captured these pictures on a visit to Nkhoma market. (Nkhoma is a small settlement 60km south of the capital, Lilongwe.) If you enlarge the top picture you will see the young woman in charge of the stall wearing a chitenje wrapped over her skirt, with another tied over her shoulders, and a third wrapped around her head.
Beautiful, yes?
(Click all to enlarge, as usual.)
Ooooooh! how would you choose which to buy, they’re all stunning. I’ve spotted one with cockerels on it!!!!
Celia
Aren’t they stunning! I still can’t spot the cockerels..
Wow… these are really something else, Judith! Thanks so much for posting them… I think I would have bought every one of them! They are so graphic and colorful… thanks so smuch for posting these and thank Kristie for taking the pictures.
just love the images in this post. I spot a few that are in my own collection and some others I wish I could see in person
ahaaaa! third photo, fourth row down, third from left …