kente

Noun

Meaning

kente (uncountable)

A type of fabric made of interwoven cloth strips, native to Ghana.

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The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector. Gautam Adani

Clothing further The Ashanti Kente cloth patterns Like most of the world, Sub-Saharan Africans have adopted Western-style clothing. Source: Internet

Inevitably the Democratic Party leadership abandoned its Ghanaian kente cloth scarves, got up off their knees, and hopped immediately on to their favorite horse, which is to claim loudly and in unison that when in doubt Russia did it. Source: Internet

Kente is a ceremonial cloth hand-woven on a horizontal treadle loom and strips measuring about 4 inches wide are sewn together into larger pieces of cloths. Source: Internet

These include carpentry, tailoring, kente weaving, batik, tie and dye, macramé, block moulding and crocheting, among others. Source: Internet

The term kente has its roots in the Akan word kɛntɛn which means a basket and the first kente weavers used raffia fibres to weave cloths that looked like kenten (a basket); and thus were referred to as kenten ntoma; meaning basket cloth. Source: Internet

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