About Bissau-Guinean Pano de Pente
Pano de pente is the narrow-strip handwoven cotton textile of Guinea-Bissau — six-inch bands woven on small treadle looms by Manjaco and Pepel artisans, then sewn edge-to-edge into wide indigo-and-white cloths. Each strip carries a different geometric drawdown encoding village and weaver identity.
This design system translates the saturated indigo ground, the vertical stripe rhythm, and the weft-structure geometry of pano de pente into interface language — no print simulation, only the pure logic of woven structure rendered in pixels.
- Origin
- Guinea-Bissau (Cacheu, Biombo, Bijagós islands)
- Era
- pre-colonial origin, strip-weaving documented since 1500s; modern fashion revival 2010s
- Key figures
- Carlos Cardoso · Sarah Diouf · Lisa Aronson · Eric Robertson
- Movements
- West African strip-weave textile tradition · Atlantic indigo dye trade
Bissau-Guinean Pano de Pente design spec
Colors
Typography
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