TaMara Howard shares her quilting projects featuring Kente textile designs. TaMara Howard, owner of Folk Quilts, describes the centuries-old history of the colorful and symbolic Ghanaian textile ...

The first Kente cloth emerged about 500 years ago in the area of West Africa now known as Ghana. The dominant group were the Ashanti, who, by the early 1800s, controlled nearly all of the area of ...

Kente is a prestigious royal cloth of Ghana's Asante people, part of their historical and cultural heritage. But there's a debate about where it originated: the Bonwire community or the Adanwomase ...

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 story.

Mr. John Patrice Kedze, Volta Regional Director of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board, has called for an inventory of kente patterns in the country in order to secure copyright for designers of ...

Kente cloth is more than mere fashion, Embil and Kusimba said. It is a canvas upon which centuries of African people have told their stories. It can show rank or prestige.

D.C. Sports Bog Shout-out to the Allen Iverson era! Georgetown’s new football uniforms feature kente-cloth pattern August 17, 2015 More than 9 years ago Summary By Scott Allen ...

In his native Ghana, Dr. Kwaku Ofori-Ansa always knew that kente cloth had a special significance. “It was always around, but not something to be seen on a daily basis. It used to be for very ...

Ann Arbor Kente cloth links African-American, African cultures Published: Apr. 12, 2009, 3:48 p.m. By Laurel Firant ...

Kente cloth and the vibrant prints based on its patterns are everywhere: in black churches as narrow columns of colorful fabric cascading over the shoulders of chorus members; on crowded urban ...

Kente-cloth patterns can also be seen on ties, scarves, backpacks, book covers, pillows, bedspreads . . . even shower ** curtains.