Ghanaian Textile (Kente), Ghana, Africa

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Digital Media Bank ID: 81621
Original Filename: r6062_6_1_d01.jpg
Description: Narrow woven kente strips, red, orange yellow and green in a variety of zig zag patterns, good quality strips made for general market ie, not commissioned which is often better quality. Fairly new designs, alternate panels of weft faced plain weave with warp faced supplementary, overshot weft. Collected as part of the Fashioning Africa Project
Categories: Collections, Collections/ Fashion & Textiles, Collections/ World Art/ Africa/ Fashioning Africa  
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Credit: Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Caption: Ghanaian Textile (Kente), Ghana, Africa
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Description (Object or Artwork): Narrow woven kente strips, red, orange yellow and green in a variety of zig zag patterns, good quality strips made for general market ie, not commissioned which is often better quality. Fairly new designs, alternate panels of weft faced plain weave with warp faced supplementary, overshot weft. Collected as part of the Fashioning Africa Project
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Other Keywords: Fashioning Africa
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Size: 191.87 KB; 2671 x 276 pixels; 226 x 23 mm (print at 300 DPI);
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Linked Accession no.: R6062/6/1