Kente cloth
[ Silence ] >>Lisa Binder: Thank you. Thank you all so very much for coming today. Thanks to Annette for that wonderful introduction, and for inviting us to participate in this public...
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This is a small cloth for a female. You wear it in this way. They open her legs and pull the cloth back... ..and cover their body this way. The other one for the blouse, and the other one for the...
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In the Ashanti region of Ghana, kente cloth is a great status symbol, marking your wealth and in the past, your office - something to be worn on important occasions and by important people. As the art...
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The dye for the cloth is produced from kuntun kruni, the roots from the kuntu plant. First, 12 buckets of water for one barrel. Add 25 sticks of the root and put into the barrel. In the next two days,...
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Both Adinkra and Kente makers sell locally. They often negotiate requirements with a local buyer. And he knows the meaning of the symbol, so he choose only four symbols. This is genomic, with that god...
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This is Seydou Sawadogo and this is his black and white mudcloth (bogolan). He's going to show us how he makes it. Bogolan is made with three main colours. 'Siiga' (African...
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What You Look'n at? Sermon of Rev. Dr. Flora Wilson Bridges First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn February 20, 2011 We want to thank our musicians and our choir and our substituting choir...
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Adinkra is a printed fabric, hand-made and worn mainly for funerals, which are very important celebrations in Ghana, according to Koja Foso. The adinkra fabric is carefully printed in graphic symbols...
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We need to ask this question of any medium, in order to understand what is easily done and what is difficult, skilled, expensive, innovative. We can't hope to understand what kente is unless...
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Kente can be made by anyone between a child and someone of very mature age. Here, young men in the village of Bonwire produce strips of relatively simple design. This is the start of a long road that...
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