Today you hear of Adanwomase and Bonwire as the Kente weaving towns of Asante, take a breath, it wasn’t like that in the past. The four original weaving enclaves were Adanwomase Asotwe, Bonwire and Mampong Beposo.
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Originally, the use of kente was reserved for Asante royalty and limited to special social and sacred functions.
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Originally, kente cloth was black and white, but dyes were developed from different plants and a range of colors evolved.
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The first country that comes to mind at the mention of Kente Cloth is Ghana, the West African country best known for this brightly coloured woven fabric.
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Kente: It is composed of many strips of narrow cloth. The strips are in hand-woven in several parts of Ghana, including Adanwomase. They are together…
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A traditional Asante Kente Cloth weaving town of about 5000 residents in the Northeast part of the Kwabre District , dAshanti Region.
