A quiet little town on the banks of the Niger River, Segou is known as the capital of mud cloth. Textile designer Boubacar Doumbia built his workshop there 16 years ago, named it Ndomo - which means "the quest for knowledge" in local Bambara language, and welcomed young people who had no opportunity to receive formal education into his collective.
A quiet little town on the banks of the Niger River, Segou is known as the capital of mud cloth. Textile designer Boubacar Doumbia built his workshop there 16 years ago, named it Ndomo - which means "the quest for knowledge" in local Bambara language, and welcomed young people who had no opportunity to receive formal education into his collective.
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Woven and block printed by hand using unbleached cotton and natural color pigment, each napkin comes with rich variation as each printed stripe is slightly different from the others. The artisan makers, now based in Northern India, were displaced from their ancestral villages in the late 1980s, losing their homes and farmlands. The traditional technique of wood block printing has been offering them a sustainable source of fair income and an off-farm livelihood.
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