Akwete cloth is a hand woven textile produced in Igboland for which the town of Akwete, also known as Ndoki, both which the cloth was named after in Abia state, Nigeria is famous.[1][2][3] Alternative names include "Aruru" meaning "something woven", "Mkpuru Akwete" and "Akwete fabric".[4][3] This traditional Igbo weaving processes sisal, hemp, raffia, cotton or other fibres into finished products.[5] While the coarse raffia materials are used by masquerades and in the past as headgear for warriors among other uses, the hemp material was used to weave towels, ropes and handbags. The more comfortable and colorful spun cotton is used to weave cloth for everyday wearing.[3] Akwete cloths contain many motifs. Today, women continue to produce Akwete cloth for a wide, global market.[6]
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- ^ Chuku, Gloria (2013). Igbo women and economic transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-64842-4. OCLC 812070253.
- ^ a b c "Igbo Weaving & Akwete Fabric: Future of Sustainable Fashion Could Be Hidden in Our Past". Eco Warrior Princess. 2019-08-15. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ "Akwete | Fashion History Timeline". fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ Akwete cloth: An Igbo textile art Vanguard Newspaper JULY 26, 2012
- ^ Indigenous African enterprise: the Igbo traditional business school (I-TBS). Ogechi Adeola. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2020. pp. 167–175. ISBN 978-1-83909-033-2. OCLC 1225193026.
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