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  2. Litema - Wikipedia

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    White symbolized the calm, purity and enlightenment that the ancestors promote and desire, while black represented the dark rain clouds that the ancestors deliver if all is calm and well, and these two colors are frequently combined in dense, alternating patterns applied to transitional zones of the architecture, such as the roofline and around ...

  3. African textiles - Wikipedia

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    The raffia stitches are then removed from the dyed cloth to reveal the pattern of white resist against a blue background. The patterns used range from geometric tribal motifs to figurative patterns of humans and animals. Clamp resist dyeing is used by the Kuba. raffia panels are folded to form a cube and then clamped and dip dyed.

  4. Aso oke - Wikipedia

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    Etu type: bears dark indigo colours with tiny white stripes noted for their simplicity. [5] [6] Opa aro: a dark blue woven cloth in solid colour broken with a stripe of green. [7] Ifun or fu: a combination of light brown and navy blue woven cloth. [7] Waka: a woven cloth of solid black background with one or two warp stripes of red. [7]

  5. Kente cloth - Wikipedia

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    Kente production can be classified by three versions: authentic kente cloth made by traditional weavers, kente print produced by brands such as Vlisco and Akosombo Textile Ltd, and mass-produced kente pattern typically produced in China for West Africans. Authentic kente cloth is the most expensive, while kente print varies in price depending ...

  6. Check (pattern) - Wikipedia

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    Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.

  7. Adinkra symbols - Wikipedia

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    what the yellow-flowered fofoo plant wants is that the gyinantwi seeds should turn black An Asante saying. One of the cotton cloth designs bears the same name. The fofoo, the botanical name of which is Bidens pilosa, has a small yellow flower, which, when it drops its petals, turns into a black spiky seed. Said of a jealous person.

  8. African design - Wikipedia

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    Like all forms of design, African design is defined by its creativity and continuous evolution. Design is a form of story-telling and it is a medium through which those stories are told. In 2009, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke on "The Danger of a Single Story" which has become one of the top ten most-viewed TED Talks of all time. For years ...

  9. Art of Burkina Faso - Wikipedia

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    These well-known patterns are not decorative, they are graphic patterns in a system of writing that can be read by anyone in the community who has been initiated. They include black-and-white checkerboards, that look like a target, zig-zag patterns that represent the path of the ancestors, X patterns, and crescents. [2]

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