Photos tagged as kente

More string!!

The lengthy warps of the kente looms stretched out in the dust...

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts kente
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Weaving the warp

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
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Working on the side of the street

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
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streaks of colour

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
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Inside the loom

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
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Having a go

Warp threads have to be woven double-string... I had a go but mucked it up chronically...

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts kente
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Kente weavers

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
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Done by the pros

• Date: 10 August 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Kumasi, Ghana
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Older kente

This piece of kente is a little older in design.

• Date: 19 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Accra, Ghana
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Adinkra cloth with kente

More adinkra cloth on yellow sand green single weave kente strips

• Date: 19 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Accra, Ghana
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Traditional kente

A beautiful huge piece of kente cloth, made up of about 17 strips. A piece like this would traditionally be worn by a man (too big for a woman) of high stature in the community.

• Date: 19 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Accra, Ghana
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Adinkra cloth with kente

The exhibit in the museum of Accra showing single-weave white kente printed with adinkra symbols interwoven with coloured double weave kente strips

• Date: 19 July 2009
• Photographer: Sarabi: gallery
• Location: Accra, Ghana
• Tags: textiles crafts adinkra kente
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