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Global Luxury. African Soul.
A pack, a pen and a notebook a student keeps for a decade.
The Scholar pack dresses the school year in house materials: a structured backpack, hardcover notebooks, a weighted fountain pen, a pencil case and an insulated bottle — every piece carrying the gold diamond Z and one narrow heritage weave.
Fashion is temporary. Identity is forever.
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Unity, identity, excellence — in a satchel.
Coated canvas, padded laptop sleeve, gold-hardware zips and a Bogolan mudcloth accent panel down the front.
Hardcover, 120gsm ivory paper, gold-edged pages and a kente spine band.
Weighted brass barrel in obsidian lacquer with a gold Z at the cap crown.
Every piece takes an initial engraving or embossed name plate at no extra cost.
Views
Colourway
Bogolan mudcloth and Kente accent panels — one weave per pack, carried across every piece.
Seven views · 3D sweep
1 / 2 · Z-VIBE Scholar™ — Unity, identity, excellence — in a satchel.
Interactive 360 viewer. Left and right arrows rotate 15 degrees, hold Shift for 45, Page Up and Page Down turn a quarter, up and down arrows or plus and minus zoom, Home resets the view, Space toggles auto-rotation and F opens full screen.
Z-VIBE Scholar™ — Unity, identity, excellence — in a satchel.
Z-View 360™
Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom to loupe level, switch on material inspection to read the weave, tune the lighting rig and compare two views side by side.
Zoom · 1.0×
Studio lighting
Colourway
Opens the fitting stage with this line already selected, using these exact frames.
Swing tags
The range
How it works
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Primary, secondary or campus size.
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Bogolan mudcloth, kente or pagne on the accent panel and notebook spine.
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Emboss initials under the gold Z before it ships.
Story behind the design
Sirablen mudcloth in indigo & ivory, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, right cuff.
indigo & ivory
ZB-SIRA-IND-368
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.
The tape carries a broken line stepping across the ground cloth. In the Bamana reading, Sirablen is the road home — steadiness on a long journey. Z-Vibe keeps the motif at heritage scale rather than shrinking it into a logo pattern, so the hand of the maker stays legible on the finished piece.
Mudcloth is placed on construction points, never scattered as decoration: crop neck band, left cuff, right cuff, front placket. These are the lines the eye already follows on this silhouette, so the cloth reads as structure — an edge, a facing, a seam — and holds its meaning at three metres and at arm's length alike.
Each length is hand-turned and pick-stitched in silk thread, then pressed over a ham so the tape sits flat, not glued. Tape width and motif repeat are cut to the size band, so a petite run and an extended run carry the same proportion rather than the same measurement.
African heritage, global luxury, future design: the mudcloth is set against European finishing and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark. Nothing is erased on either side — the meeting is the design. Different Roots. One Human Story.
Care · Spot-clean the mudcloth with cool water and a soft cloth. Dry-clean the body of the piece; the tape is colour-set but not bleach-safe.
Each step below reflects work that actually exists for this piece. Refinement is a design process — it does not imply the piece is production-released.
Owner-approved design board intakeIn progress
Registered from the collection register entry; the full design board is still being filed.
Z-Sole Architecture™ assignmentComplete
Sole identity resolved for this style — Z-Grip™ Scholar Cut (ZG-2762) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, woven-cord relief echoing a Bogolan warp, tapered aerodynamic last with a raked heel breast, stack 40 mm heel / 26 mm forefoot, 14 mm drop, laced in round braided Bogolan cord over a waxed core, aged-gold aglets, diamond Z at the lateral wall, Z-VIBE at the medial wall. Tread, last and stack height were made unique to the shoe rather than shared across the register.
Bogolan signature verificationComplete
Mudcloth was confirmed as a construction detail (laces, panel, tongue or heel band) and not surface print, and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark was placed.
Z-Studio 4K refinement passNot yet run
No refinement output released yet — this page reads the approved board unretouched.
Seven-view studio captureNot yet run
No angle has been shot yet; all 7 views read the design board.
Questions
Available finishes
Heritage signature
Bogolan mudcloth and Kente accent panels — one weave per pack, carried across every piece.
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