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 ...

Kente cloth has been a cloth of royalty. Its hand made woven process is what makes it rare and expensive. We wear it, we love it, but most of us have little clue of what the symbols and patterns mean.

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 ...

A Politifact fact check also found that Ashanti royalty wore kente cloth at the time of the slave trade but that “art historians say that the brilliant colors and patterns of the modern version ...

Kente cloth is believed to have been produced as early as 1000 B.C. among the Akan and Ewe peoples of Western African in modern-day Ghana and Togo, according to the African American Intellectual ...

Time was when the kente was a strictly royal cloth reserved only for the most special of occasions and the elite of Ghanaian societies. Today the kente is widely available to all of us ...

Congressional Democrats wore stoles made of Kente cloth during a moment of silence for George Floyd, drawing criticism from observers who felt they made the traditional African textile into a ...

Learn about Kente (woven) cloth, a tradition from the Ashante and Ewe tribes of Ghana. Weave a bracelet or bookmark. Materials provided. All ages. Presented by the Textile Museum of Canada in ...

Time was when the kente was a strictly royal cloth reserved only for the most special of occasions and the elite of Ghanaian societies. Today the kente is widely available to all of us ...