Ghana · weaving communities / Undated type or practice · no individual specimen
Kente strip-woven cloth
Joining strips, retaining names
The V&A describes kente as narrow handwoven strips sewn into a larger cloth. Construction and pattern are inseparable: a seam joins separately worked lengths. Compare the repeated unit with Stepanova’s printed geometry while keeping their production histories distinct. A visual resemblance is an invitation to ask about labour, not evidence of direct influence. Names, uses and meanings need community-specific evidence. This type record does not date a specimen or assign one meaning to every pattern, and it does not turn Ghanaian textile traditions into a single political emblem.
- Date
- Undated type or practice · no individual specimen
- Maker / designer
- Ghanaian weaving communities
- Material
- Handwoven strips joined into cloth
- Context
- A comparative record of work and shared life. Inclusion does not assign a socialist identity to its makers.
Evidence: Date not established · Place recorded at country level
Historical record
- Victoria and Albert Museum · Africa fashion: cloth of a continent
- This is a type or practice record, not a provenance for a particular household object.