A Woven Tradition With AAKS

AAKS is a fashion bag brand that connects us all to Ghanaian tradition. Ghanaian designer, Akosua Afriyie-Kumi, uses the brand to take her local roots global. Her creative designs are brought to life in a little rural village, with local women who weave colourful raffia together as a close knit community, using handwoven traditional techniques.

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This community and the personal, traditional hand-weaving that the women carry out, is a core part of AAKS’ selling point, and so they open up their ‘behind the scenes’ in a wholesome storyboard of creativity and community. The AAKS Instagram page is a beautiful celebration of womanhood, art and life in rural Northern Ghana.

“In a small tranquil village in Ghana, hamlets scatter over the savannah as far as your eyes can see. A group of local artisan weavers sit under a huge baobab tree laughing away, on close inspection you see piles of colourful raffia and in between the noise of chatter and laughter these women are hard at work. Their hands move so deftly and proficiently interlacing threads of raffia with such speed its mesmerising to the eye. On closer inspection you realise they are tending to a craft with an innate knowledge that has been handed down by generations before them.” - AAKS

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