Handwoven Mud Cloth Throw

Rather good news if you've been searching for something that looks splendid and happens to be genuinely made by hand. This is a proper handwoven mud cloth throw, the sort of thing that requires rather more patience than most of us possess and rather less machinery than you'd expect.

Why Choose Our Handwoven Mud Cloth Throw

Authentically Handcrafted: Each piece is woven on traditional strip looms using methods passed down through generations in Mali. The result is a beautifully made textile that tells its own story.

Artisan Made with Intention: Created by skilled craftspeople who know their craft inside out, these throws showcase genuine artistry rather than mass production.

Natural Dyeing Process: The mud dye and leaf mixtures are sourced locally and applied by hand, making each pattern utterly fetching and entirely unique to your throw.

Cultural Heritage You Can Hold: Bogolan, known in Bamana as Bogolanfini, translates to mud cloth. The term encompasses both the cloth itself and the rather marvellous process of making it. The word breaks down as bogo meaning earth or mud, lan meaning with or by means of, and fini meaning cloth.

Product Details

Dimensions: 160 centimetres by 100 centimetres

Construction: Hand spun and hand woven on traditional strip looms, with individual strips sewn together to create the full cloth. The finished weave is washed and dried in sunlight before decoration begins.

Design Process: Once the base cloth is ready, it's soaked in a mixture of pounded leaves from local trees. Artists then apply mud dye designs using small bamboo or metal spatulas, creating patterns that may reflect personal taste, social significance, or cultural tradition. Each design is outlined meticulously, then the cloth is washed to reveal the final result.

A throw like this doesn't come along every day. These are rather special pieces, the sort of thing people notice and ask about. Worth acquiring before someone else realises how rather fabulous they truly are.