The Kraal Gallery is a passionate South African family business that trains, employs and empowers women to become qualified master weavers and individual fibre artists.

It produces the best quality hand-woven rugs, tapestries and related articles in Africa.  It allows weavers to explore their creativity as talents evolve and stunning individual pieces are created.

The Kraal Gallery is socially and environmentally committed to best practices and to creating hundreds of jobs through comprehensive skills transfer and ongoing training.  Its products are fantastic, its vision international and it is busy weaving a bright, vibrant future that hopefully encourages others to follow their duty and assist their fellow man in whatever way they are capable.

The Dream

The dream is large indeed! The Kraal Gallery wants to showcase talents we wouldn’t have otherwise known existed. The Kraal Gallery wants a to become a household name in modern hand woven design, colour and individual artistry that stretches into homes locally and abroad. The team want to see a dream realised

• one rooted in a way of modern resourcefulness and combined efforts that lead to economic change and a social paradigm shift
• producing and presenting the talents and beauty of people who thrive in the creative realm.

Bit by bit each hand woven item is created with an abundance of thought and energy resulting in a reflection of the individual weaver herself. The Kraal weavings speak a tone of natural mystic, personal touch and emerging artistry.

At present the Kraal team operates in Stellenbosch and Genadendal. It aims to combining the different cultural influences of each region into a common vision and then to present the finer details to the people of the world. The most recent project has recently begun in the rural Western Cape town of Genadendal. This town is steeped in heritage and was the first town to offer human rights to the indigenous people of Southern Africa. A fitting place to resurge a work once started...