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Kente designs: Asante strip, Ewe block, chieftain cloth in three colourways

Kente — Narrow vertical bands in a fixed stripe sequence — gold, black, green, red — running the length of each strip, the strips sewn together slightly out of register so the stripe rhythm jumps at every seam., narrow-strip weaving in silk and cotton on a double-heddle loom, the strips hand-sewn edge to edge

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Reading 1Warp stripes
Reading 2Weft blocks
Reading 3Filled cloth

Kente comes off a narrow-band loom in strips sewn edge to edge, so the pattern reads twice — once in the warp stripe, once in the weft blocks that break it. These nine set the wide Asante strip, the blockier Ewe strip and a chieftain cloth reading, each in three colourways. Ask for a different named cloth and the same three colourways carry it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each design renders at A3 proportions with a clean margin, so it prints crisp at A3 or scales down to A4.
Can I ask for a different named kente cloth?
Yes — name the cloth you want in the direction field and the same three colourways carry it, the way weavers name each new combination.
What sets the three colourways apart?
Each colourway keeps the same strip structure and swaps only the thread palette, from the traditional gold-and-green register to a muted modern one.
Is this respectful of real Asante and Ewe kente traditions?
The set draws on the strip-weaving structure and colour vocabulary of Asante and Ewe kente as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific weaver's or workshop's cloth.

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This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.