Lilia Morris | New York City Colorful kente cloth—made of handwoven silk and cotton—has been part of Ghanaian tradition for hundreds of years. The colors and patterns in any given piece tell a ...

Kente is a prestigious royal cloth of Ghana's Asante people ... Nana Osei Kuffour later introduced the varieties of geometric weave patterns into Asante kente. These weave patterns have ...

UNESCO has added Ghana’s Kente cloth to its Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The famous material comes from the Asante and Ewe people of Ghana and dates back to ...