They require lightweight white cotton fabric, heavy silk sateen fabric, seed beads, sequins, straight pins, feathers dyed in various colors, and colored silk ribbon. Ribbon colors should be purple, blue-green, and pink, or another color as noted above. A yard of each color of cloth, three yards of each color of ribbon, plus three yards of white cotton, will be sufficient. A good supply of multicolored sequins, feathers, and seed beads will be fine, don't worry about specific colors. Those who become asogwe will make seven packets, and thus the fabric colors should be white, red, blue, black or lavendar, gold, pink, and green, or another color as noted above.
Ribbons are purple, blue-green, pink, red, blue, white, and black, or another color as noted above.
Again, a yard of each color, three yards of each color of ribbon, and six or seven yards of white cloth will be more than enough. Likewise, a generous supply of multicolored sequins, feathers, and seed beads will be fine. These large, beautiful glass beads are manufactured in Eastern Europe, but they have become de riguer for Haitian kanzos. They can be found in American craft stores, check with me on availability. You will need about 1,500 of these beads of all colors to make a proper kanzo necklace.