01/16/2023
Our first project # 001 titled “Behind The Cloth”, will showcase and explore the rich culture, heritage and history of Kente Cloth. According to legend, Kurugu and Ameyaw, two brothers from the village, went hunting one afternoon and came across a spider spinning a web. They were amazed by the beauty of the web and thought that they could create something like it. Upon returning home, they made the first cloth out of black and white fibers from a raffia tree.
A second legend of the origins of kente cloth told by Bonwire villagers is the story of a man named Ota Karaban and friend, Kwaku from Bonwire had their weaving lessons from a spider that was weaving its web. They began to do the same and from that birthed a cultural practice of kente weaving which produces the historic and symbolic Kente cloth.
