Sentences with kente
ken·te
K k - One trend shaping up for spring is an abundance of graphic black and white textiles that recall Op Art paintings, or messed up checkerboards. Mr. Panichgul’s were subtle, made of patchwork ticking stripes, but Ms. Cornejo’s looked almost as if she had recolored traditional kente cloth for her inviting wraps and a one-shouldered sheath. Ms. Sarafpour’s version was an eye-popping kaleidoscope fabric that, like the splotches of turquoise or coral beads elsewhere, relieved the drabness of her earth-tone lady coats.
- For the Asante, the people most closely associated with kente, the cloth shifts from being a marker of class and regional origins to serving as ritual costume, nationalist statement, and marketing device.
- For Asante royalty and Ewe chiefs, for members of Asafo military companies and keepers of village shrines, and for tourists and African American artists, kente communicates ideas about identity and community.
- Busia, a poet and daughter of former Ghanaian Prime Minister Dr. K. A. Busia, relates the stories of three kente cloths in her collection.
- The men wear hand woven kente cloths draped over the left shoulder, with a ready-made short sleeved shirt underneath.
- Textiles are well developed, especially handwoven kente, and stamped adinkra cloths.
- African American couples want their big day to reflect their heritage and incorporate discreet Afrocentric touches, such as a broom jumping ceremony, libation or tuxedos with kente cloth accents.
- Many African Americans decorate their high school and college graduation robes with scarves of kente cloth produced by Asante weavers.
- Most contemporary kente cloths reflect the ongoing experimentation with colors.
- Wearing a red dress, hot pink headwrap, kente cloth, a silk fringed shawl, and an armful of bangles, she is fully sexual, a celebration of African American womanhood.
- The variety of kente cloth that adorns every outfit he wears is legendary.
- In the opening pages of his introduction, Ross alludes to the separate paths kente has taken in Ewe and Asante communities as he discusses the cloth's name itself.
- Wrapped head to ankle in colorful kente cloth.
- From a hand-crocheted baby's blanket to a swath of kente cloth.