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The weave
Look for the seams where the strips meet. A printed tie doesn’t have them.
Kente · Ghana & Côte d'Ivoire
Kente — pre-order
$40Made to order · ships in 2–3 months
Ordered on my next buy. Colours and block patterns vary between pieces — you'll get kente, but not this exact kente.
- Piece
- Made to order
- Cloth
- Kente
- Woven in
- Ghana & Côte d'Ivoire
- Method
- Hand loom, strip-woven
- Quantity
- Made to order
- Care
- Spot clean only. Never machine wash — these are hand-loomed cloth, not printed polyester.
About Kente
The weave most people recognise. Kente is built from interlocking blocks of colour, and traditionally each colour carries meaning — gold for status and wealth, green for growth and harvest, black for maturity. It has been woven essentially the same way for three hundred years.