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About Shipibo Kené Pattern

Kené is the sacred geometric design language of the Shipibo-Conibo people of the Peruvian Amazon — a living tradition passed matrilineally through generations of women painters. Handspun cotton is dyed with mahogany-bark tannin to a deep red-brown ground, then overlaid with an unbroken maze of near-black lines painted in fermented mud and huito fruit pigment.

The labyrinth is not decoration but notation: each continuous channel is understood as a visible song, traced and "sung" by a shamanic keeper along its unbroken path. This system channels that logic — dark earthy ground, seamless right-angle line-work, and a strict rejection of pale or pastel fields — into a design language for digital surfaces.

Learn more about the Shipibo Kené Pattern style

Origin
Ucayali River basin, Peruvian Amazon
Era
Living contemporary tradition, roots pre-Columbian; practice continues unbroken today
Key figures
Shipibo-Conibo women artists · Shamanic keepers of kené
Movements
Kené geometric line art · Amazonian textile and ceramic tradition · Icaro song-as-pattern

Shipibo Kené Pattern design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

RubikHeadings
Noto SansBody
Space GroteskMono
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