Strip-woven cloth of the Asante and Ewe of Ghana: narrow strips about four inches wide, each alternating warp-faced stripes with weft-faced blocks of geometric fill, sewn edge to edge. Patterns have names and some were royal. UNESCO listed it in 2024; Ghana protects the name with a geographical indication.
A strip loom can only weave narrow, so the cloth is a grid by construction, and the colours carry meaning: gold for royalty, blue for peace, green for growth, red for sacrifice, black for maturity and the ancestors. Appropriation in fashion is a live controversy, which shapes what this plate does.
The plate is cloth: eight strips, each a column of warp-faced stripe blocks alternating with weft-faced band blocks on a cell grid, with fringe at both ends. The figure is rasterised on the same grid and woven in as weft cells with horizontal thread texture.
Weave structure only, in our own colour sequence and fills, matching no named cloth. No adinkra symbols, each of which has a specific meaning.