Drawing fabric Bogolan Brown (1m)
Drawing fabric Bogolan Brown (1m)
20,000 CFA
Brown and white Bogolan fabric with drawing entirely by hand. The process is long and requires dexterity. You can use it for decoration.
Hand-woven by an artisan from organic cotton produced in Burkina Faso and dyeing is natural, coming from mood and plants.
Fabric width: 121 cm
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BOGOLAN / HEADING
Bogolan/Mud Dye is a Malian textile dyed according to an ancestral technique familiar to Burkina Faso, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal. The word bogolan, of the Bambara language, derives from the words bogo, meaning « Earth », and lan, meaning « of the ». The basic dyes are generated by soaking the fabric in a decoction of African birch leaves (n After the basic dyes, the drawings are made in sludge fermented with a delicate brush.
soak and dry the fabric
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draw drawing with fermented mud
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Dipping and drying to get a darker tone
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