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Rini Africa

The Fabrics

Our Designs

A closer look at cloth from the Rini atelier.

A Rini design, deep teal with a floral and geometric pattern
A Rini design, deep red with gold circle motifs
A Rini design, gold with a hand-brushed pattern
A Rini design, lime green with a marbled pattern
A Rini design, lavender and black with a star motif
A Rini design, yellow and black in a striped resist pattern
A Rini design, burgundy with a chevron weave
A Rini design, gold and pink in a dotted ombre pattern

Four rooms, four ways of working cloth. Enter each one for its history, its craft, and how Rini reads it today.

Fabric bundles carried to market

Bazin

Structure. Sheen. Ceremony.

A glazed cotton damask, beaten by hand to a deep, mirrored sheen: the fabric of West African formal dress.

Hands, working indigo-dyed cloth

Adire

Indigo. Resistance. Expression.

Yoruba resist-dyed indigo cloth, historically the work of women artisans in and around Abeokuta.

Wax-resist pattern, applied by hand

Batik

Wax. Colour. Pattern.

A wax-resist dyeing art with roots in Java, adopted, industrialised and reimagined across West Africa.

Preparing thread for weaving, by hand

Textile Techniques

Thread. Resist. Hand.

The craft vocabulary, weaving, dyeing and finishing, that sits beneath Bazin, Adire and Batik alike.