The cloth
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a wolo bark tannin with iron-rich mud drawn from the Niger banks — 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 indigo premium denim, gold-ochre, white and aubergine mali bogolan arch chest panel, gold dome buttons, z-embroidered collar, curved slit hem.
