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 ivory satin-linen with luminous fluid drape, hand-blocked cocoa / ivory bogolan mudcloth inner facing and neck band, gold-tone z closure mark.
