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 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.

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 ...

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