Sourcing
Direct relationships with weaving cooperatives across the Ashanti and Volta regions. We verify provenance, negotiate at fair rates, and inspect before anything ships.
- 40+ weaving partners
- Sample lead time 10 days
Bonwire · Ashanti · Since 1998
Handwoven Kente and home textiles from master weavers in the Ashanti region, sold to collectors, and sourced for partners worldwide.
Mojonetworks: handwoven Ghanaian textiles
The Mojonetworks story
We started by asking who wove it
Most West African textiles reach international buyers through so many hands that the weaver's name is lost by the second one. We built the business the other way round, starting at the loom, in Bonwire, and working outward.
Every cloth we sell records where it was woven and by whom. Every partner we source for gets the same record. That is the whole proposition: not just the cloth, but its provenance intact.
How it is made
Four inches at a time, on a treadle loom
A weaver sets the warp, the long threads held under tension, then passes the weft across by hand. A single cloth is built from strips no wider than a forearm, each one finished before the next begins, then sewn edge to edge.
One full cloth takes a master weaver three to six weeks.
- Loom
- Narrow-strip horizontal
- Strip width
- 10 cm
- Strips per cloth
- 16 – 24
28 warp · weaving
The cloth
Every colour carries a meaning
Gold for royalty and worth. Blue for harmony and the sky. Green for renewal, black for maturity and spiritual strength. A weaver chooses a pattern the way a writer chooses a sentence. The cloth says something specific before anyone wears it.
We list the pattern name and its meaning on every piece we sell.
Trade & consulting
Sourcing West African goods, without the guesswork
For retailers, boutique owners and trade organisations who need a partner on the ground in Ghana.
Request a consultationLogistics
Export documentation, customs clearance and freight from Tema and Accra. Textiles carry their own tariff complications; we handle the paperwork that stops shipments at the border.
- Tema · Accra origin
- Air and sea freight
Consulting
Market entry advice for retailers moving into West African goods: pricing, seasonality, cultural context, and which cloths carry meanings you should not put on a cushion.
- Market entry
- Cross-cultural briefing