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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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]
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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.
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Kente is the most famous of all the Ghanaian clothes. [249] Kente is a ceremonial cloth hand-woven on a horizontal treadle loom and strips measuring about 4 inches wide are sewn together into larger pieces of cloths. [249] Cloths come in various colours, sizes and designs and are worn during very important social and religious occasions. [249]