African Textiles - Brooklyn Children's Museum

Resources & Reference MaterialsVocabulary WordsAdireAdinkraCalabashDyedKenteLoomPatternsPrintedTextileWovenA deep blue dyed cloth with designs made by preventing the dyefrom touching parts of the cloth.A cloth decorated with symbols stamped in a grid pattern.One of the first cultivated plants in the world, grown for theusefulness of its fruit. When the calabash is dried it is used tomake adinkra stamps and many other useful things in Africanculture such as spoons, containers, and instruments.To impart a new color to an item, impregnating it with dye.A cloth made by sewing woven kente strips together.A frame or machine for weaving threads or yarns into cloth.A design or motif that repeats in a predictable and organizedmanner.A cloth designed by using a stamp or stamps to apply a motif orpattern.A cloth, especially one that is handmade.Cloth made by interlacing threads on a loom.African Textiles | 32