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  2. 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 ...

  3. Stripweave - Wikipedia

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    Stripweave is a textile technique in which large numbers of thin strips of cloth are sewn together to produce a finished fabric. Most stripweave is produced in West Africa from handwoven fabric, of which the example best known internationally is the kente cloth of Ghana. [1]

  4. Adanwomase - Wikipedia

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    Adanwomase is also well known for the traditional Kente cloth weaving. Although there are a variety of oral histories concerning the origins of Kente Cloth, historians and scholars agree that Kente Cloth production is an extension of centuries of strip-weaving in West Africa. Strip-weaving has existed in West Africa since the 11th century.

  5. African textiles - Wikipedia

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    Ewe Kente: Kente cloth is also worn by the Ewe,located in Ghana and Togo and Benin Republic. The Ewe, a Gbe speaking group who originated from Nigeria,had a tradition of horizontal loom weaving, adopted the double heddle frame loom style of kente cloth weaving from the Asante with some important differences.

  6. Ghanaian smock - Wikipedia

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    Kente cloth originated in the southern region of Ghana. How it is made. The smock is traditionally made from hand-loomed strips comprising a blend of dyed and undyed ...

  7. Bonwire - Wikipedia

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    "Gagamuga" was the first cloth that was made. Years later, the two brothers improved the form of their discovery. This new form had the looks of the surface of a basket locally known as "Kenten". The people of the town called the new design, (Kenten-Nwin-Ntoma), a woven-basket-cloth. It was later corrupted to Kente.

  8. Wrapper (clothing) - Wikipedia

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    Kente—traditionally woven by men. Kente is an informal fabric for anyone who is not a member of the Akan people. For Akans and many Ewes, kente is a formal cloth. Mudcloth—created by making mud drawings on cotton. Tie-dye—made by resist tying cotton then dipping in dye. In Nigeria, tie-dye is known as adire cloth.

  9. Folk costume - Wikipedia

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    Ghana – Kente cloth or Ghanaian smock (called fugu or batakari) [17] and kufi (male), Kente kaba and slit set (female), agbada (male) Guinea – Boubou (male ...

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