Silk Thread Art - What it Looks like framed

Silk Thread Art is the technique involves images woven together using silk thread. This century- old art form Originated with the Ashanti people of modern day Ghana. This form of weaving was initial used to make the royal kente cloth, which has been transform into an art form. It is now widely practiced throughout West Africa.

African Silk Thread Art featuring incredibly colorful and stunning majestic Silk Thread Art from Ghana. This silk thread art is hand woven using colorful arrays of silk thread. The silk thread is applied to a leather canvas one color at a time and arranged in rows, which work around in spiral shapes and often changes directions to contrast the flow of color. This embroidery like artwork involves abstracts, illustrative and scenery images woven together using silk thread. This old art form originated with the Ashanti people of modern day Ghana and this form of thread art weaving is used to make the colorful royal kente cloth, which has transformed this beautiful silk thread art into tapestry-like artwork that may be purchased with or without a frame.

Here is the one that hangs in my house and you can see what it looks like framed.