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 n'tjankara leaf mordant followed by a slow black-mud pass — 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 blush linen-silk blend with soft matte sheen, hand-blocked cocoa / ivory bogolan mudcloth shoulder facing and hem tab, gold-tone z micro-hardware.
