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Kente cloth. Kente refers to a Ghanaian textile made of hand-woven strips of silk and cotton. [ 1] Historically the fabric was worn in a toga -like fashion by royalty among the Ashanti and Akan. According to Ashanti oral tradition, it originated from Bonwire in the Ashanti region of Ghana. In modern day Ghana, the wearing of kente cloth has ...
The order was enlarged several times. As finally constituted, the first and second classes wore a portrait badge bordered with diamonds, the third class (for ladies of the Bedchamber) a portrait badge bordered with pearls, the fourth class (for women of the Bedchamber) a royal cipher. Since this was an official order (conferring the postnominal ...
Indian female royalty (3 C, 110 P) Iranian women royalty (3 C, 2 P)
In 2019, Amazon unveiled StyleSnap, an AI-driven tool that matched fashion photos users uploaded with products on its site. Brands like Asos, Wayfair, and Target have launched similar tools that ...
The colors pink and blue are associated with girls and boys respectively, in the United States, the United Kingdom and some other European countries. Originating as a trend in the mid-19th century and applying primarily to clothing, gendered associations with pink and blue became more widespread from the 1950s onward.
Tyrian purple is a pigment made from the mucus of several species of Murex snail. Production of Tyrian purple for use as a fabric dye began as early as 1200 BC by the Phoenicians, and was continued by the Greeks and Romans until 1453 AD, with the fall of Constantinople.
The regalia in this case did not have any connotations of a metaphysical nature, but was seen primarily as a symbol of the power of the ruler concerned. The regalia today would be kept at the respective capital cities, usually in the palace or palaces of each state. In April 2005, an exhibition was shown at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, which ...