Kôkô Dunda has origins in the city of Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. The name literally translates to ‘entrance to Kôkô', the name of the district in Bobo Dioulasso where the dyers traditionally work. 

Bogolan/Mud Dye is a Malian textile dyed using an age-old technique that's familiar to Burkina Faso, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal. The word bogolan, from the Bambara language, derives from the words bogo, meaning ‘the earth’, and lan,meaning ‘from’. Base tinctures are generated by soaking fabric in a decoction of African birch leaves (n'galama) and later being left to dry in the sun. Following the base tinctures, the designs are made in fermented mud with the help of a delicate brush.

A purplish-blue dyeing material extracted from the leaves and stems of the indigo tree, “indigo” significantly receives its name from the resulting deep dark blue colouring. In Africa, the two most widely used indigo plants are Indigofera Arrecta and Lonchocarpus Cyanescens. The first grows in dry areas and results in a blue called ‘savanna blue’ and the second, more common in West Africa, gives off a indigo plant colour known as ‘forest blue’.The leaves collected from these plants are used to prepare the dye, which are used either fresh or dried and are compacted into balls or a paste that are later diluted.

Batik is a fabric that is printed on by coating certain parts with wax, utilising wooden stamps to carefully place the wax on the fabric. Once the wax is fully dried, the fabric first goes into a dye bath, followed by a hot bath where the wax melts and the final result is visible.