Ntonso | |
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Country | Ghana |
Region | Ashanti Region |
District | Kumasi Metropolitan |
Time zone | GMT |
• Summer ( DST) | GMT |
Ntonso is a town in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region noted for its Adinkra crafts. [1] It is located about 15 km north of Kumasi in the Ashanti region. [2] It is also the home of Adventist Girls High School. [3]
Ntonso is the place where the adinkra cloth is made in Ghana. The traditional adinkra is made from the scratch locally. It is the producer of Ghana's adinkra, a fabric known for its proverbial wisdom and symbols. The cloth was initially worn for funerals only in the Ashanti region of Ghana. It comes in a variety of colors such as brown, red and black. Currently, it is produced in all colors and used everywhere in Ghana. [4]
Ntonso also has visitor centers and official tour guides. [5] Visitors could be engaged in a variety of stages of adinkra production like dye preparation, adinkra stamping, cloth dyeing and embroidery of stamped cloth. [4] [2]
6°50′N 1°31′W / 6.833°N 1.517°W
Ntonso | |
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Country | Ghana |
Region | Ashanti Region |
District | Kumasi Metropolitan |
Time zone | GMT |
• Summer ( DST) | GMT |
Ntonso is a town in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region noted for its Adinkra crafts. [1] It is located about 15 km north of Kumasi in the Ashanti region. [2] It is also the home of Adventist Girls High School. [3]
Ntonso is the place where the adinkra cloth is made in Ghana. The traditional adinkra is made from the scratch locally. It is the producer of Ghana's adinkra, a fabric known for its proverbial wisdom and symbols. The cloth was initially worn for funerals only in the Ashanti region of Ghana. It comes in a variety of colors such as brown, red and black. Currently, it is produced in all colors and used everywhere in Ghana. [4]
Ntonso also has visitor centers and official tour guides. [5] Visitors could be engaged in a variety of stages of adinkra production like dye preparation, adinkra stamping, cloth dyeing and embroidery of stamped cloth. [4] [2]
6°50′N 1°31′W / 6.833°N 1.517°W