suturelike

comparative more suturelike · superlative most suturelike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a suture.

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   The evidence of material richness continues where crafts traditions and modernist abstraction meet: in moss-green yarn reliefs by the Ethiopian artist Elias Sime; in Nicholas Hlobo’s suturelike stitched pieces based on Zulu needlework; and in enigmatic collages by Moshekwa Langa, one of several artists in the show who were also in “Africa Remix,” the grand contemporary survey in 2005 that never made it from Europe to the United States.

   2008 April 4, Holland Cotter, “Out of Africa, Whatever Africa May Be”, in New York Times