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Room: The Veranda of Floating Threads

Source collection The Veranda of Floating Threads

Kente Is More Than a Cloth

This large color poster, Kente Is More Than a Cloth: History and Significance of Ghana’s Kente Cloth is prepared by Prof. Kwaku Ofori-Ansa. The poster includes sections on: Overview; Names of Cloths and Their Symbolic Meanings; Names of Motifs and Their Symbolic Meanings; Parts of a Cloth; Symbolic Meanings of Colors; Judging the Quality of Cloths; Uses of Kente; Weaving Materials; and a select bibliography.

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Blue and white cotton warp samples

AFEVO: Home Handweave of the Ewe

Warp sample overview

Warp stripe names

background warp pattern

Weft-faced patterns

Brigitte Menzel

Fractal encoding

Structural Patterns in Asante Kente

Colors of Kente cloth

Political symbol

Largest known kente cloth

Kente Is More Than a Cloth

Wearing of cloths

Ultimate achievement

Two distinct decorative techniques

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The Veranda of Floating Threads