Nike Davies-Okundaye
Nike Davies-Okundaye (born 1951), also known as Nike Okundaye, Nike Twins Seven Seven and Nike Olaniyi, is a Nigerian Yoruba and adire textile designer. She is best known as an artist for her cloth work and embroidery pieces.
Quotes
[edit]- I found a way to make us women powerful, by being able to earn money.
- “I always sign the work I do by myself with my name N-I-K-E and I encourage the other women to sign their work too,”
- “You have to wear your indigo to show your people that you love them.”
- Indigo is regarded as the color of love by the Yoruba people. “The pattern of Adire is the way we used to communicate in the past,”. You have to wear your indigo to show your people that you love them,
- By the time I was ten-years-old, I was already weaving on a proper loom and considered a professional,”
- “There are over 4000 women whose lives have changed thanks to textiles.”
