Asante Kente Cloth. Kente cloth is among the best known types of African textiles admired by Europeans since their encounters with the Asante kingdom in the early 18th century. The Asante do more abstract patterns that have.
The Asante do more abstract patterns that have. Among the numerous fabrics that serve as body wraps throughout west Africa perhaps the most striking is kente cloth associated with the Asante of Ghana. The Ashanti Empire or Confederacy which was located in what is today Ghana first emerged in West Africa during the seventeenth century.
It is believed that the Ewe who had a previous tradition of horizontal loom weaving adopted the style of kente cloth production from the.
Kente cloth is among the best known types of African textiles admired by Europeans since their encounters with the Asante kingdom in the early 18th century. Asare says the Ewe people as well as the Asante have long made kente with some differences. Woven in long thin strips by male Asante weavers the cloth is associated with high status and is worn by members of royal families including the chief in the accompanying photograph by. Kente is also found in Asante shrines to the deities or abosom as a mark of their spiritual power.
