Kumasi Craft Villages

About

A day through the craft villages around Kumasi: weavers at Bonwire working looms two people wide, brass casters at Krofrom, and an adinkra workshop where you stamp your own cloth to take home.

Highlights

• Three working villages
• Stamp your own adinkra cloth
• Lunch at a local kitchen
• Manhyia Palace museum stop

What you'll do

1. 1

   Bonwire

   Kente weavers at looms two people wide, and what the patterns actually mean.

2. 2

   Krofrom

   Brass casting by the lost-wax method, from wax model to finished piece.

3. 3

   Lunch in Kumasi

   A set lunch at a local kitchen near the palace.

4. 4

   Adinkra workshop

   Stamp your own cloth with carved calabash dies and take it with you.

5. 5

   Manhyia Palace

   The museum, and the short version of six hundred years.

What's included