The fabric is thick and heavy, adorned with brown, black, ochre and white geometric shapes as well as ideograms. Recognisable to all, this fabric – dyed on woven cotton – is one of Mali’s most ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This compilation of tracks recorded at Ali Farka Touré’s Studio Bogolan in Bamako is a perfect who’s who of the ...

. In the Bamana language, the word translates as "prison is finished," meaning the freedom to rely on the culture of others and well as one's own culture, as a means of expression. "Bogolan" is a ...

In Mali, master artist Boubacar Doumbia is passing on the ancient textile techniques used to produce Mali's iconic bogolan mud cloth to the next generation, thereby training young fabric designers.

Object Details Author Doumbia, Boubacar 2006 Call number TT853 .D68 2006 Type Books Physical description 32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm Place Mali Smithsonian Libraries Topic Dyes and ...

Malian fabric producers are famed for their distinctive bogolan designs - the word means "made with earth" in the Bambara language. Since June these fabrics have been stamped with a logo confirming ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. We have just added an online exhibition about Malian Bogolan (mud cloth) to the website of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. This ...