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 champagne ivory wool-silk suiting with soft lustre, brown / cream hand-blocked bogolan mudcloth collar band, border trim, cuff facing and trouser inset, gold-tone z hardware.
