Kente Cloth in Ghana

Kente cloth is a bright patterned cloth native to Southern Ghana (and became a fashion statement in the USA in the early 1990's) There are many different way to create homages to Kente cloth, I chose a simple method of taking tiny strips of construction and card stock paper and arranging them in a pattern of alternating horizontal and vertical strips. What I thought would take only a few minutes of pasting random pieces of paper together turned into a project where students were planning out where they put their strips, and really thinking about their color decisions. Many students enjoyed creating unique patterns.