Most designs are produced by combining two distinct decorative techniques. The first, supplementary weft float, involves the addition of extra weft threads that do not form part of the basic structure of the cloth. Instead they ‘float’ across sections of the ground weave. Rows of these wefts are arranged to form designs such as triangles, wedges, hour-glass shapes etc. The second effect is to create solid blocks of coloured thread across the cloth strip entirely concealing the warp. This effect is achieved by the use of a technical innovation unique to the weaving of southern Ghana, namely the use of a second set of heddles that has the effect of bunching together groups of warp threads allowing them to be hidden by the weft.
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