Kente prestige cloth | Types | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Large cloth composed of narrow woven strips, each horizontally striped in many colors.

Kente Prestige Cloth (Ghana), early–mid-20th century
cotton, mercerized cotton.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2007-8-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
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Man's prestige cloth composed of twenty-three narrow woven strips stitched selvedge to selvedge. Each strip is patterned with rectangular areas of warp-faced stripes weft-faced plain weave on grouped warps, and patterned weaves with two-color complementary wefts and brocading. The pattern blocks are arranged in a checkerboard fashion. Black, blue, green, yellow, and red, with a strong yellow-orange predominating.

Kente Prestige Cloth (Ghana), early to mid-20th century
viscose rayon.
Gift of Mrs Calvin W. Stillman.
1969-11-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.