Onyx Side Rail Tee · 4/6 checks · Reference only — buy controls inert
Board art present
Primary plate resolves.
Seven views
7/7 view slots resolve · 1 real photograph(s), rest derived from the plate sheet.
Bogolan signature
Placements: crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
Colourways
1 colourway(s) registered.
Owner marked art final
Awaiting owner sign-off — reference only.
Released for commerce
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House · Z-Vibe Mudcloth Atelier™
Black fitted tee with twin Bogolan side rails and bronze-edged shoulder yokes. Campaign design plate. Wash cool inside out, tumble low and press on the reverse so the Bogolan motifs keep their depth. Registered from the approved campaign plate. Side, back and detail views are not shot for this look, so the board opens as a single full-length plate rather than a 360 set.
Choose how you inspect it.
Visual experience—color and fit may vary.
Seven views
Z-Motion™ film slot
No film cut for Onyx Side Rail Tee yet. The slot is reserved on the plate.
Commission the film →Black fitted tee with twin Bogolan side rails and bronze-edged shoulder yokes. Campaign design plate. Wash cool inside out, tumble low and press on the reverse so the Bogolan motifs keep their depth. Registered from the approved campaign plate. Side, back and detail views are not shot for this look, so the board opens as a single full-length plate rather than a 360 set.
Made up in Black cotton jersey, twin Bogolan side rails, bronze-edged shoulder yokes.
Registered in a single colourway, Black / Bronze.
Sized XS–3XL across the run.
Filed under Men · Z-Vibe Mudcloth Atelier Tees™ as Men t-shirts, carried on the House · Z-Vibe Mudcloth Atelier™ line.
Dress to Express. Live to Inspire.
Mudcloth in camel & espresso — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Hand-rolled edges, motif matched to the collar facing.
Story behind the design
Sirablen mudcloth in camel & espresso, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
camel & espresso
ZB-SIRA-CAM-486
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a double n'gallama bath with a lime-brightened reserve for the pale ground — the pattern is not printed on, it is drawn in mud and then the ground around it is lifted away. On this piece the mudcloth meets black cotton jersey.
The tape carries a broken line stepping across the ground cloth. In the Bamana reading, Sirablen is the road home — steadiness on a long journey. Z-Vibe keeps the motif at heritage scale rather than shrinking it into a logo pattern, so the hand of the maker stays legible on the finished piece.
Mudcloth is placed on construction points, never scattered as decoration: crop neck band, left cuff, front placket. These are the lines the eye already follows on this silhouette, so the cloth reads as structure — an edge, a facing, a seam — and holds its meaning at three metres and at arm's length alike.
Each length is cut on the straight grain, mitred at the corners and felled by hand so no raw edge is left inside. Tape width and motif repeat are cut to the size band, so a petite run and an extended run carry the same proportion rather than the same measurement.
African heritage, global luxury, future design: the mudcloth is set against European finishing and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark. Nothing is erased on either side — the meeting is the design. Different Roots. One Human Story.
Care · Cold hand-wash or specialist clean only. Mud dye deepens with age; never bleach, and dry flat away from direct sun.
Each step below reflects work that actually exists for this piece. Refinement is a design process — it does not imply the piece is production-released.
Owner-approved design board intakeComplete
The signed design board was registered as the source of truth; silhouette, Bogolan placement and hardware were locked from it.
Z-Sole Architecture™ assignmentComplete
Sole identity resolved for this style — Z-Grip™ Tee Cut (ZG-7004) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, split-diamond Z lugs stepped in three depths, sculpted almond last with a lifted toe spring, stack 28 mm heel / 18 mm forefoot, 10 mm drop, laced in flat woven Bogolan mudcloth tape, aged-gold aglets, diamond Z at the lateral wall, Z-VIBE at the medial wall. Tread, last and stack height were made unique to the shoe rather than shared across the register.
Bogolan signature verificationComplete
Mudcloth was confirmed as a construction detail (laces, panel, tongue or heel band) and not surface print, and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark was placed.
Z-Studio 4K refinement passComplete
Studio refinement rebuilt the shoe at 4K: cleaner last geometry, corrected proportions and true material rendering on the released angles.
Seven-view studio captureIn progress
1 of 7 angles are distinct photographs; 02 Left, 03 Right, 04 Back, 05 Interior, 06 Inner tags, 07 Fabric detail still read the design board.
Cut in Black cotton jersey with twin Bogolan side rails, bronze-edged shoulder yokes. Curve-friendly darted tailoring, modest coverage, clean shoulder line.
Bogolan is placed with intention \u2014 crop neck band, left cuff, front placket \u2014 a construction language rather than decoration.
Z-signature buttons at the Discreet Z at the cuff, waist or closure — never a chest logo, finished under Global Heritage Fusion\u2122: African heritage in dialogue with global tailoring and future design.
Empowered by design.
Bogolan SignatureIn development
Reference study · not yet for sale
This piece is documented from an atelier design board. It is shown for reference only while the house completes its photography, sizing and release. Purchase, pricing and availability appear here once the owner approves the finished piece.
Readiness · 1 of 8 complete
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