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Ewe Kente Weaving Pearls of Wisdom in Klikor
Woven writings from inscriptions
gathered in the village
Eva Basile & Robert Aleawobu Glidzi-Kllkor, 2003

The "legend scarf" is possibly the most successful gadget ever created using Kente cloth. These are normally decorated with legends such as "Greetings from Ghana" or the names of colleges or companies and various commemorative phrases. These cheap scarves are made of "
Asivo": low-quality market fabrics. But they can be valorised
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Pearls of Wisdom in Klikor is a "woven anthology" of the various mottoes and sayings which decorate walls and vehicles in the village of Klikor (in Ghana, you are greeted by a proverb at every corner). As well as the concepts of the individual messages, precious here are both the lettering and the composition of the plain-weave ground, referring back to the Afevo tradition.

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