Drop 001 / 05
The weave
Look for the seams where the strips meet. A printed tie doesn’t have them.
Kente · Ghana & Côte d'Ivoire
Kente No. 3
$48In stock · one of one · ships this week
Gold carries most of the surface here, closest to the traditional Ashanti pattern. Warm under indoor light.
- Piece
- 05 of 8
- Cloth
- Kente
- Woven in
- Ghana & Côte d'Ivoire
- Method
- Hand loom, strip-woven
- Quantity
- One of one
- 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.