Akwete cloth; bowtie motif with inlay technique; Indian George-type design as basis with small ebe weft-float; cotton threads; fringe on either end. Color: white, yellow, black, red, green, and blue
Akwete cloth; inlay technique; four rows of comb combined with ebe with python belly design in middle and rows in between with little arrows; variegated stripes running lenthwise; fringe on either end. Color: white, green, yellow, blue, and lavender on red
Akwete cloth; inlay technique; rows of ikaki (tortoise) alternating with rows of okpuru afo eke (python belly) design with lines in between; fringe on either end. Used as a stole. Color: white, black, and turquoise
Akwete cloth; inlay technique; rows of ikaki (tortoise) alternating with rows of ebe (drinking cup) woven to look like diamonds; fringe on either end. Used as a stole. Color: black and gold
Akwete cloth; inlay technique; design of arrows, checks, and stripes; fringe on either end. 15a and 15b are part of a wrapper set; 15c is a stole. Color: white on white
Akwete cloth; inlay technique with double-woven checks; diamond motifs, Nnadede design (based on Indian madras) with mkpuru oka (grain of corn) interspersed throughout. Color: red, yellow, white, blue, and green
Akwete cloth; tortoise, saw, and draught motifs; inlay technique; three rows of ikaki (tortoise) and thatch design, four rows of ebe designs with draughts (checkerboard) in center, small ebe and lines in between these rows; fringe on either end. Color: White, blue, and gray
Akwete cloth; black cloth and black rayon, inlay technique,"ikaki"(tortoise) alternating with draughts (checkerboard) with fringe on either end. Color: black
Akwete cloth; inlay technique, ikaki (tortoise) with fefe (sword) as one row; draughts (checkerboard) as other; rayon weft on cotton; fringe on either end. Color: black and gold
Aki Berndt was born in 1955 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. He married an American woman and lived in Berlin before moving to Minnesota in 2000. After he lost his job as an architect in 2009, he began to bake bread and opened his own bakery, Aki's BreadHaus, in Minneapolis in 2014.
Contributor:
Smith, Madison
Created:
2017-05-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Program Opens: Theme up: "Two hundred years ago..." Program Closes: "... presentation of the Minnesota School of the Air." Theme out. This familiar legal phrase sumes up the main point of contention between the crown officials who sought to send the as yet unknown burners of the Gaspee to England for trial, and those who favor...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Radio Station KUOM
Created:
1972-11-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.