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 butter gold premium linen, cocoa embroidered chest band, triple grey rail embroidery, inset bogolan mudcloth motif tile, mudcloth inner placket facings, discreet gold-tone diamond z on the inner label.
