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Kongo women wove such large-scale panels to enhance interior spaces. In this masterful example, the field is defined by a continuous network of a repeating design composed of lozenge or diamond forms filled with an interior fret motif. That overall graphic leitmotif is intensified and magnified at the center by a monumental version outlined in black and fret bands. Its presence is subtly integrated with the background through shared formal elements and the way it dissolves at its summit and base.
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