Bogolan Mudcloth

Malian bogolan — earth-dyed mudcloth with hand-drawn geometry.

Swatch shows the same line — Signal over noise — rendered in this material, so the surface is the only variable.

Prompt formula

SURFACE:  Narrow strips of hand-loomed cotton sewn edge to edge — the STRIP SEAMS must be clearly visible as slightly puckered vertical joins crossing the whole cloth, with tiny alignment mismatches between strips. The cloth was painted with fermented mud over a yellow n'gallama dye bath, so the ground is a deep blackish-brown and the motifs are the undyed off-white cloth reserved between them, with soft bleeding at every edge, faint brush hesitation marks and uneven dye density where the mud sat thicker. Palette strictly earth - blackish-brown, rust-brown, undyed cream, and a little ochre — NO blue at all. Motif vocabulary is strictly rectilinear and symbolic - grids, checkerboards, zigzag rows, concentric squares, arrow rows, short dashes and dot fields, arranged in bands. Cotton weave and slubs clearly visible; one frayed edge.
SKELETON: auto by page role (cover / chapter / list / compare)
DEVICE:   the page's argument drawn as a form native to this material
END:      Full-bleed 16:9 — render DEVICE on the SURFACE, per the page's composition.
CRITICAL: title in clean legible English; NEVER invent extra words or non-English glyphs;
annotations only as marks / numbers / dimension lines; no UI, no cards, no captions.

Source

Material recipe from the PPT-Zen 32-material library. Our own artwork.

License: CC-BY-4.0 · contributions via DCO

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