Boon & Up

Handwoven fabrics and homeware from women weavers of the rural far north of Ghana. Made from handgrown carbon-neutral cotton.

23/04/2026

New colours and a new collection of fabrics a’coming!
Our dyers have completed their test results for our new colours, and next stop will be a new collection of fabrics, coming soon! Watch this space!

06/01/2026

Mabel models our fabric ‘Savannah Tracks’. Legend has it that the first Dagaaba man to settle in modern Lawra in Ghana was a man named Kontol. He crossed the river from what is now Burkina Faso in pursuit of wildlife. After a while he stopped as he felt thirsty. Finding no streams or lakes to quench his thirst he followed the tracks of the wildlife as their hooves and paws left dotted red and pink tracks in the red earth of the sun-bleached vegetation of the savannah, and this led him to a water hole where he founded our hometown, Lawra.

16/12/2025

‘Rivercorn’ from Boon & Up, handwoven in rural Ghana from carbon-neutral cotton. Every Easter the people of our hometown of Lawra empty out onto the corn fields on the banks of the nearby River Volta for a three-day festival. It’s dry season so the blue-brown river will have dried out to a trickle, and fingers of the yellow sandy riverbed serve as dancefloors for the partygoers.

12/12/2025

Handwoven fabric from Ghana by Boon & Up. Our collection of 50 fabrics, woven from carbon-neutral cotton, includes ‘Neem Tree’, modeled by Mia. The Neem tree packs a variety of medicines into its frame. Boil the leaves to fight off the symptoms of malaria, scrape the bark to alleviate rheumatism. This traditional pattern focuses on the undulating surface of the trunk.

11/12/2025

Our fabric ‘River Crossing, in leaf’: in our corner of rural Ghana the Dagaaba people live in both Ghana and Burkina Faso and are separated by the Volta River. Since time immemorial politicians have been promising a bridge, but for now the 50 metre crossing is made by dugout canoes, and market traders and travellers will heap their goods into the wobbly craft and paddle across.

08/12/2025

A little sunshine on a grey day.. featuring our ‘Anamaala’ fabric. Handwoven in rural Ghana from carbon-neutral cotton.

04/12/2025

Say hello to our wonderful weavers! Suzy, Janet, Linda, Esther, Grace,
Mabel, Ophelia, Anita and Sylvia. The very best.

02/12/2025

‘Xylophone’ and ‘Harvest Bounce’

Xylophone - In our part of rural Ghana we string together empty gourds of differing sizes and give them little wooden hats which we then rhythmically drum. Our fabric pattern represents the hypnotic tunes that have a central theme but sound like mellifluous babbling brooks, the tunes take years of apprenticeship and dedication to understand and learn.

Harvest Bounce - The big event of our year is the harvest festival celebrations in our hometown. Everyone dresses up to the nines, and dance troupes from right across Ghana gather to out-perform each other. Village chiefs line up to make speeches, relatives return from far flung places, and everyone enjoys an enormous two-day party.

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