Bogolanfini Mud ClothThis is an important resource for designers, textile lovers, and African art scholars. Over 200 color photographs beautifully illustrate the mud cloth art of the Bogolan people in Mali, Africa. Their art form, in which geometric, abstract, and semi abstract patterns are hand painted with mud dyes on hand woven cloth, has gained enormous popularity internationally. Informative text, by noted African art historian Irwin Hersey, examines the evolving