Kente
ケンテ / 17th century– / Style / Textile Traditions
The strip-woven cloth of Ghana's Asante and Ewe, where every color and pattern bears a name and a meaning — wearing it is a statement.
Strips sewn into cloth / High-key gold, red, green / Named patterns / Ceremonial dress
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- The Asante court and cloth rank / the naming system of patterns / diaspora reception and debates over wearing