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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With 120 years of expertise, Iwachu (岩鑄) is one of the representative manufacturers of Southern Ironware (Nambu Tekki, 南部鐵器) in Japan. Intricately designed and forged by hand using pure iron ore, clay, and charcoal in the Iwate Prefecture, the Iwachu teapots carry on the handicraft tradition, which stemmed from the Edo Period, with new elements of design carefully infused to adapt to the modern lifestyle.
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