What distinguishes traditional Ewe weaving from that of the Ashanti is a lightness and improvisational quality, the use of cotton rather than silk or rayon and the introduction of floating weft patterns of a figurative nature into some of the warp-faced sections of a strip. Their palette is more varied and a softer tone is frequently achieved by twisting together two colors of yarn for a tweedy effect. The Ewe have never united to form an autocratic kingdom. Not constrained by the limitations of a court-dominated social order the Ewe strip weavers were able to express their creative and technical skills in cloth with imagination, artistry and ingenuity that are without equal.
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