kente

The strip-woven, patterned cloth created by professional weavers among the Asante peoples of Ghana and the Ewe peoples of Ghana and Togo, in West Africa. Web resources here and here. Video here.

Man’s cloth (kente). Asante. Rayon. 1930s-1940s. Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles.

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