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The yarns for weaving come in various forms and qualities, in the past these were spun from local grown cotton or unravelled from cotton and silk cloths imported from different countries. Various colours of yarn maybe combined in particular ways to reflect the symbolic significance of the cloth. The quality of the yarns used in the weaving of the cloth reflects on the level of prestigious and are most highly valued.
Tradition is that kente cloth is woven manly by men, woman in the past played a significant role by spinning the cotton into yarns and the dying of the yarn to get it's desired colour. Today factories have replaced this so they mainly sew the strips together.
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