Craft Desk · 5 min
Colour as a chord
Why a kente strip changes meaning the moment it meets a tailored shoulder.
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Kente
Royal strip weave, tailored for now.
Kente is woven in narrow strips, then joined so colour becomes a chord. Our ateliers set those strips into Italian blocks and gold hardware — the proportion of a European jacket, the voice of an Ashanti loom.
- Origin
- Ghana — strip-woven silk and cotton
- Fused with
- Cut with Italian tailoring and Milanese chain
- Wear it in
- Signature CollectionZ Jewelry & Watches™
Cloth mechanics
Loom proportion, braid rhythm, dye behaviour.
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Loom proportion
Strip loom · 8:3, joined at the selvedge
Braid rhythm
Colour chord, four-strip repeat
Dye behaviour
Yarn dyed before the loom, colour holds
Provenance card
Share the exact cloth story.
A single card carrying the origin, loom proportion, braid rhythm and dye behaviour of Kente — with a link back to this page.
Gallery
From the journal