kente

The strip-woven, patterned cloth created by professional weavers among the Asante (Ashanti) people of Ghana and the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo, in West Africa. Web resource here. Video here.

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

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