Rini Africa
The Fabrics
Four rooms, four ways of working cloth. Enter each one for its history, its craft, and how Rini reads it today.
Bazin
Structure. Sheen. Ceremony.
A glazed cotton damask, beaten by hand to a deep, mirrored sheen — the fabric of West African formal dress.
Adire
Indigo. Resistance. Expression.
Yoruba resist-dyed indigo cloth, historically the work of women artisans in and around Abeokuta.
Batik
Wax. Colour. Pattern.
A wax-resist dyeing art with roots in Java, adopted, industrialised and reimagined across West Africa.
Textile Techniques
Thread. Resist. Hand.
The craft vocabulary — weaving, dyeing and finishing — that sits beneath Bazin, Adire and Batik alike.