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 sweat-wicking four-way stretch performance knit with flatlock seams, woven gold / black bogolan mudcloth pocket binding, outseam and vent trim, gold-tone z mark.
