Various forms of textiles are made including chitenge, mud cloth and kente cloth.

Indian embroidered bedspreads and African mud cloth lend a relaxed air.

His bush jacket, made of black-and-white mud cloth with contrasting black-on-brown mud cloth collar, sleeves and belt sells for $375.

And she covered a Balinese bed with mud cloth and used it as a coffee table.

Converse is selling a shoe made from African mud cloth.

Other distinctive fabrics include mud cloth, a stiff, often dark material from Mali, and ashoke, woven with metallic threads, from Nigeria.

Floor cushions made with contemporary Malian mud cloth ($250 to $350) are at Objects in Phoenix, (602) 808-4422.

Two quilts include African-American fabrics and an authentic "mud cloth" from Mali.

A beautiful mud cloth on a stretcher also grabbed my eye.

Cultural A special textile known as the "mud cloth", "bògòlanfini" or "bogolan" is manufactured locally.