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Kente woven cloth as pattern communication

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Kente is a strip-woven prestige cloth associated especially with Asante and Ewe makers. Named patterns carry social meaning and are worn at ceremonies of status. Ghanaian museums Bonwire community accounts and textile scholarship document kente as a coded visual language rather than purely decorativ

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