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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In the eyes of the founder and designer of UNNU textiles, Jigisha Petal, the thousand-year-old technique of wool felting is a process akin to watercolor painting - from gently dyeing fibers while enhancing their natural colors, to layering and blending fibers to achieve a variety of effects, the unique quality of felting is used as a paint brush to portray the beauty of nature, art, and traditional textiles in India.
As a feature of the handmade process, the pattern and color of each item may vary slightly
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