Rupert Museum Heritage Day line-up on 24 September covers an impressive range of activities covering African design, poetry, workshops and more – see programme below.
The day starts at 10:15 with a talk that grabbed our interest.
The story behind the Basotho Blanket, talk by Steven Sack
The history of the Basotho blanket emerges out of intersecting human spaces. The missionaries, the traders, merchants, manufacturers and designers of the blankets – and the wearers. All share a joint responsibility in the creation of objects of material culture which have both symbolic significance and are objects of daily use.
Steven Sack will elaborate more on the earlier decorative and craft traditions of pre-colonial Sotho culture. As well as the secret language associated with aspects of the symbolic, spiritual and cultural values.
A selection of Basotho Blankets are available for sale at the Museum Café for the month of September. Price: R1000 per blanket.
The blanket has deep cultural significance. Most designs symbolize fertility and growth. Its tight, thick weave is soft, warm, and repels rain and wind, just as it has been designed to do for over a century.
PHOTO above: Oil painting by RD Shrubsole, 1948. Courtesy of Steven Sack.
WHERE: Library, Rupert Museum,
WHEN: Saturday 24 September 10:45 – 12:15
COST: R50 pp BOOK HERE
WHAT: Rupert Museum Heritage Day line-up WHERE: Rupert Museum,Stellentia Road · Stellenbosch, 7600 · South Africa
INFO: T 021 888 3344 | E grace@rupertmuseum.org | Visit
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