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Re: kente cloth question -Susan

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From: The Austin's (whest177_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Sat Jan 24 2004 - 19:35:05 PST

At a workshop I attended at KAEA the presenter shared photos of these strips
of cloth being woven. They are always woven by men, and the warp threads are
something like 20 feet long. They weave these unbelieveably long strips of
cloth, with each color having a specific meaning (not sure about the
pattern), and then the strips are sewn together to make cloth. I'll try to
scan my picture this week if anyone is interested (it's at school).
Fascinating!
~Michal

> I thought of a way to rephrase my question. Is the fabric pieced from
> continuously woven strips, or are the strips pieced first, then assembled?
> 

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