Traditional clothing

Main article: Kente cloth

Kente fabric, the conventional or countrywide fabric of Ghana, is worn by most southern Ghanaian
ethnic corporations along with the Akan, the Ga, and the Ewe.

Along with the Adinkra cloth Ghanaians use many distinctive material fabrics for his or her traditional
attire.[269] The extraordinary ethnic companies have their own man or woman fabric. The maximum
widely recognized is the Kente material.[269] Kente is a completely crucial Ghanaian country wide
costume and apparel and those cloths are used to make traditional and current Ghanaian Kente attire.
[269]

Different symbols and exceptional shades mean different things.[269] Kente is the maximum famous of
all the Ghanaian cloths.[269] Kente is a ceremonial fabric hand-woven on a horizontal treadle loom and
strips measuring approximately four inches huge are sewn collectively into larger pieces of cloths.[269]
Cloths are available in numerous colors, sizes and designs and are worn for the duration of very essential
social and religious activities.[269]

In a cultural context, kente is more essential than just a material and it is a visual illustration of records
and additionally a shape of written language via weaving.[269] The term kente has its roots within the
Akan word kɛntɛn because of this a basket and the first kente weavers used raffia fibres to weave cloths
that appeared like kenten (a basket); and for that reason were known as kenten ntoma; that means
basket fabric.[269] The original Akan call of the fabric became nsaduaso or nwontoma, which means "a
material hand-woven on a loom"; however, "kente" is the maximum frequently used time period today.
[269]