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Kente

Brightly woven strip cloth of the Asante and Ewe peoples of Ghana.

A pattern drawn for this page, not a picture of Kente.

Also: kenten, nwentoma

Kente is a handwoven cloth made of narrow silk or cotton strips, woven on a loom and sewn together edge to edge. It originated with the Asante and the Ewe of Ghana, and each pattern has a name and a meaning, shown by its colours: gold for wealth, green for growth, blue for peace, red for sacrifice. In the past it was reserved for royalty, and today it is worn at weddings, graduations, funerals and festivals, in Ghana and by the African diaspora. Weavers in Bonwire and Agotime work to this day. A kente stole on a graduate's shoulders is a mark of pride in heritage.

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa

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AdinkraAso ebiBogolan

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