IGC Fashion & Salford Slow Fashion

Woven Worlds

Salford Slow Fashion (UK) and IGC Fashion (Uganda) have created a distinctive fashion collection that celebrates bark cloth—an ancient and culturally significant Ugandan fabric. Godfrey Katende of IGC Fashion is leading vital work to revive and modernise bark cloth, starting with two innovative outfits. One garment is made from cotton naturally dyed using bark cloth and rust sourced from the infrastructure of historic Lancashire cotton mills. The second is a quilted jacket crafted with bark cloth and repurposed textiles from Owino Market in Kampala and Oxfam in Manchester.

This collection is deeply rooted in experimental processes, emphasising the narratives and journeys woven into each textile.