KENTE, is one of Ghana’s best selling cultural products with its history dating as far back as centuries ago. Over the years, the craft has seen many evolutions but the good thing is that, Ghana’s ...

Hold a piece of kente cloth between your fingers, and the first thing you notice is likely the bright, saturated shades of yellow, red, blue, and green. You might observe several rows of patterns, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Among the narrow strip weaving ...

- Perched in the center of a long, narrow loom, Francis Marfoh paddled two foot-treadles and worked school-bus yellow thread into a kente cloth pattern last week, onlookers around him marveling. This ...

Learn about Kente (woven) cloth, a tradition from the Ashante and Ewe tribes of Ghana. Weave a bracelet or bookmark. Materials provided. All ages. Presented by the Textile Museum of Canada in support ...

Kente is a prestigious royal cloth of Ghana's Asante people, part of their historical and cultural heritage. But there's a debate about where it originated: the Bonwire community or the Adanwomase ...

The best metaphors come as naturally as sunrise; they aren’t forced or contrived. When you discover that kente cloth — real kente cloth, woven by hand, not the machine-made version — is the same both ...