GHANA PHOTO GALLERY

Photos showing Behind the Scenes travelers Melanie and Shirley [Cynthia Samake at center] wearing batik dresses--and Mercy, the Grande Dame of Batik, plus stamping cloth with hot wax in our batik workshops. Also shown are Master Kente weaver Bobbo with Barou Samake, Adinkra cloth worn with dignity by a friend's father, and printing adinkra with carved gourd stamps in another workshop, the fabulous fabric markets, and some fantasy coffins. Finally shown are beads and the bead-making process, buying kente cloth from the weavers, and scenes at the school where we stopped to donate school supplies brought by Tedi.

Cynthia, Melanie and Shirley wear gorgeous MERCY dresses!Mercy, Grande Dame of BatikBarou and Bobbo, master Kente weaver, share a laughBarou handsome in Mercy's batik!Behind the Scenes prints!!Professional batik printer helps us make beautiful cloth!Elsa prints!Friend's father in hand-printed Adinkra clothStamps for cloth printing called AdinkraPrinting Adinkra cloth near KumasiWorker silkscreens patterns for traditional clothGirls sort fabric bolts in Kumasi market, GhanaHAND-PRINTED Adinkra cloth in market, Kumasi, GhanaPoking a hole into the molten, red-hot glass globs so they become beads, Odumase, GhanaPolychrome recycled glass beads, make from ground up drink bottles, GhanaWorker at bead studio, washing and polishing recycled glass beadsHAND-woven kente cloth, Bonwire, GhanaBTSA Travelers buy kente strips from the village weaversBarou Samake watches a kente cloth weaverKente narrow-strip weaving loomHand carved fantasy coffin for someone who liked to travel, or a pilotFish coffin, hand carved for a fisherman!Ghanaian school kids in far western area, where we donated school supplies