Tradionally, each strip is begun and concluded with a group, or head, or five designs, of which Nnwotoa, “snail’s bottom’ and Babadua, named for a common tree of Ashanti, are the most commonly used. Less expensive weaves will have heads composed of Asyem (resembling the skin upon which the Asantehene rests his feet while sitting in state) and Nsatia, ‘fingers’. The five designs are always arranged so that in weaves some designs are repeated while Babadua apprears once, whereas on adjecent strips various designs appear once and Babadua are repeated.
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