The popular view that it is a generally African cloth is flawed. My study found that the historical origins of Asante kente in the town of Bonwire were associated with a spider weaving its web.

Anshutz; coverlet; Figured and Fancy, double cloth; c. 1845; Ohio National Museum of American History Jacob Schnell coverlet; jacquard, single weave, Pennsylvania, 1869 National Museum of American ...

The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the weaving of wide cloth faster and easier, stood at the threshold between the largely handcrafted world of the past and the ...