Keiskamma Tapestry

A hand-embroidered narrative textile about 120 meters long, made by more than 100 Xhosa women from Hamburg and neighboring villages in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, through the Keiskamma Art Project. Modeled on the Bayeux Tapestry, it depicts the history of the Eastern Cape frontier. It hung in the corridors of the Old Assembly building of the Parliament of South Africa in Cape Town and survived the fire that struck Parliament in January 2022.

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