Kente cloth is the best known African textile and one of the most admired fabrics in the world. Its dazzling colours and geometric pattern plus its long history have made it popular in this country as a symbol of African pride. Machine printed imitations, many of them made in Korea and China, are widely available.
We have been designing our own Kente designs. We chose different coloured card and wove them together to create our own patterns and then used felt tips to draw on shapes.