Delta Traditional Wedding Wrapper Cake
This lovely Niger Delta Traditional Wedding cake design comprises; two folded wrappers (blue and white), a walking stick, black bowler hat, red coral beads and kola nuts. Cake design: Kristam Cakes
4-tier Igbo Traditional Wedding Pillow Cake
Lovely Igbo traditional wedding cake: 3-tiers of pillow topped up with a red jewellery box overflowing with beads. Cake design: Cake Palace by Delight.
Cute Ghanaian Couple in Matching Brown and Peach Kente Outfits
This bride is really stunning in this traditional engagement outfit. The beaded corset is great way to design a Kente outfit – and of course this is the usual mermaid dress. Lovely!
How to Wear the Kente Cloth Traditionally
1. Put the cloth behind you, draping it over your shoulders and holding the two different ends with both hands. 2. Take the cloth in your right hand, pass the cloth underneath your right arm and across your body, throwing it over your left shoulder. 3. Keeping the cloth in place on the left shoulder…
How to Clean Kente fabric
Machine washing or hand washing is not usually recommended for Kente fabric because it will loosen the weaving. Simply put – the authentic Kente fabric isn’t meant to be washed. So the best option to clean your Kente outfit is to dry clean it.
How to Buy Kente Cloth
1. The best place to buy authentic Kente Cloth is directly from Ghana or from someone who has a Ghanaian supplier. 2. When buying Kente, take note that the authentic Kente fabric is hand woven from individual threads. Imitation fabrics that look like Kente are actually prints. 3. Imitation Kente cloth are usually cheaper in…
10 Facts You Should Know About the Kente Cloth
1. “Kente” is a word in the Ashanti language of Ghana, which means “basket”. Ironically, the Ashanti people call the Kente fabric “nwentoma” which means “woven cloth”. 2. Authentic Kente fabric is woven by the Ewe and Ashanti tribes in Ghana. 3. The Kente cloth is known as the fabric with the most complicated weavings…
8 Interesting Facts About the Herero Tribe
1. The Herero (Ovaherero) ethnic group makes up about 7% of Namibia’s population. 2. The Herero are a cattle breeding nation that migrated from East Africa to Namibia about 350 years ago. 3. The town of Gobabis in Eastern Namibia was initially known as Herero land. 4. In the 1900s large numbers of the Herero…