Ntonso is a town in the

Kwabre East District Kwabre East Municipal District is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Kwabre District, after it was created from part of the former Kwabre-Sek ...

of the

Ashanti Region The Ashanti Region is located in southern part of Ghana and it is the third largest of 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of or 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. In terms of population, however, it is the mo ...

noted for its Adinkra crafts. It is located about 15 km north of

Kumasi Kumasi (historically spelled Comassie or Coomassie, usually spelled Kumase in Twi) is a city in the Ashanti Region, and is among the largest metropolitan areas in Ghana. Kumasi is located in a rain forest region near Lake Bosomtwe, and is the ...

in the Ashanti region. It is also the home of

Adventist Girls High School Adventist Girls' High School (formerly Ntonso Senior High School), is a Ghanaian girls' senior high school at Ntonso in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region. See also * Education in Ghana * List of senior high schools in the Ashanti R ...

Home of Adinkra

Ntonso is the place where the adinkra cloth is made in Ghana. The traditional adinkra is made from the scratch locally. It is the producer of Ghana's adinkra, a fabric known for its proverbial wisdom and symbols. The cloth was initially worn for funerals only in the

Ashanti region The Ashanti Region is located in southern part of Ghana and it is the third largest of 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of or 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. In terms of population, however, it is the mo ...

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

. It comes in a variety of colors such as brown, red and black. Currently, it is produced in all colors and used everywhere in Ghana.

Hospitality

Ntonso also has visitor centers and official tour guides. Visitors could be engaged in a variety of stages of adinkra production like dye preparation, adinkra stamping, cloth dyeing and embroidery of stamped cloth.

References

Populated places in the Ashanti Region {{AshantiRegion-geo-stub