Description
The story in this book is widely known among the weavers in Ghana and dates back to the mid-seventeenth century during the time of King Oti Akenten.
Kente cloth has many vibrant patterns – often with significance and meaning. In the Ashanti region of Ghana, you can still see yellow, red, and blue threads laid out to dry in the sun. There are fine, handmade looms and asase-ntoma – apprentice weavers – who learn to gather their own dyes and process yarns for weaving kente. And like their masters, and their masters’ masters before them, they are told the story of how a beautiful spider shared her weaving secrets with two resourceful, expert weavers.
