Jane Dunnewold is a woman of the cloth — art cloth, that is. When this San Antonio resident creates art, she combines her complex personality with the age-old techniques of printing and dyeing fabric.

For too long, we have treated kente as ceremonial fabric instead of what it truly is, a sophisticated design language. A visual system. A coded textile architecture developed over centuries by master ...

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