House Desk · 6 min
The hands behind a single trim
Six weeks, four studios and one metre of cloth — how bogolan travels from riverbank to runway.
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Bogolan
Mud cloth geometry, engineered for movement.
Bogolan 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.
Loom proportion
Narrow strip loom · 6:4
Braid rhythm
Stamped motif, four-count
Dye behaviour
Fermented mud bleeds into the fibre
Provenance card
Share the exact cloth story.
A single card carrying the origin, loom proportion, braid rhythm and dye behaviour of Bogolan — with a link back to this page.
Gallery
From the journal