The Ashanti were extremely conservative in their taste in textile fabrics ; this is shown by the fact that rather than wear cloths of European design which offended their aesthetic taste, they would (in the case of silk cloths) sometimes actually unravel and reweave the imported manufactured article to suit their own taste. Most of the designs in the 1927 Warp sample overview of Robert Sutherland Rattray are recognized standard patterns. They do not nearly exhaust all the different varieties. While the designs of these are more or less standardized, the names of the designs in some cases appear to vary in different localities.
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