House Desk · 6 min
The hands behind a single trim
Six weeks, four studios and one metre of cloth — how Bogolan mudcloth travels from riverbank to runway.
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bogolanfini
Mud cloth geometry, engineered for movement.
Bogolan mudcloth is dyed with fermented river mud and pounded leaf tannin, each motif a sentence in an older language. We keep the hand of the cloth and set it against Japanese selvedge, American denim and technical mesh — so the pattern reads as engineering, not decoration.
- Origin
- Mali — hand-fermented mud cloth
- Fused with
- Paired with Japanese selvedge and American denim
Cloth mechanics
Loom proportion, braid rhythm, dye behaviour.
Hover or focus the diagram to see the cloth resolve.
Provenance card
Share the exact cloth story.
A single card carrying the origin, loom proportion, braid rhythm and dye behaviour of bogolanfini — with a link back to this page.
Gallery
From the journal