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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This textured raw silk pillow is from a fair-trade artisan cooperative in Assam, India, woven by indigenous Bodo women weavers working on bamboo hand looms. Unlike in the production of most commercial silks, the silkworm cocoons used here are collected only after the moths have emerged, and therefore the silk is known as ahimsa, meaning "peace silk".
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