Handcrafted in West Africa by skilled artisans, each piece is created using carefully selected materials — genuine cowhide leather and stainless steel — shaped through traditional techniques.
Subtle variations in texture, tone, and detail make every object unique, a reflection of the human hands and heritage behind its creation.
Umber
Leather & Cowhide Bag
Made from authentic West African leather and genuine cowhide, ethically sourced with care and respect for traditional craftsmanship. Each bag is unique by nature — combining heritage, luxury, and timeless elegance.
Each piece is handcrafted in limited quantities. Please complete the form below to submit your pre-order request. We will contact you shortly with payment and shipping details.
Pre-orderCowrie
Leather & Cowhide Bag
Because every cowhide is naturally unique, no two bags are exactly alike — making each piece truly one of one. A wearable archive of gesture and place.
Each piece is handcrafted in limited quantities. Please complete the form below to submit your pre-order request. We will contact you shortly with payment and shipping details.
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Tolek
Gold-plated Earrings
Crafted by skilled West African artisans, finished in premium gold plating. Their sculptural silhouettes blend cultural heritage with contemporary sophistication. This earring is available in two colorways.
Each piece is handcrafted in limited quantities. Please complete the form below to submit your pre-order request. We will contact you shortly with payment and shipping details.
Pre-orderDjenné
Gold-plated Earrings
Named after the great ancient city of Djenné — these earrings carry the memory of centuries of West African craftsmanship. Timeless and distinctive.
Each piece is handcrafted in limited quantities. Please complete the form below to submit your pre-order request. We will contact you shortly with payment and shipping details.
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An evolving collection of visual references, research, and observations — from architectural details and natural landscapes to archival discoveries and material studies.
Every piece begins with a skilled hand.
Created in collaboration with artisans across West Africa, our work honours techniques refined through years of practice and lived experience.
A celebration of human expertise, attention to detail, and the quiet value of things made well.
Each artisan brings a personal vocabulary of gesture and material knowledge, passed down through generations. In choosing to work this way, we choose permanence over convenience.
Sankofa Studio is a multidisciplinary creative space founded by Mariam Sidibé, Visual Artist, Designer & Art Therapy Practitioner (trained in Art Therapy).
Rooted in West African heritage, the studio explores visual storytelling through art, design, material research, and craftsmanship.
Influenced by pre-colonial architecture, ancestral gestures, organic textures, and natural tones, the studio develops a quiet visual language shaped by memory, intention, and poetic restraint.
Working across visual art, creative direction, and object design, Sankofa Studio approaches creation as both an aesthetic and emotional language.
Each piece is handcrafted in limited quantities. Please complete the form below to submit your pre-order request. We will contact you shortly with payment and shipping details.
Handcrafted in West Africa by skilled artisans, each piece is created using carefully selected materials — genuine cowhide leather and stainless steel — shaped through traditional techniques. Subtle variations in texture, tone, and detail make every object unique.
Umber
Leather & Cowhide Bag
Made from authentic West African leather and genuine cowhide, ethically sourced with care and respect for traditional craftsmanship. Each bag is unique by nature — no two cowhides are exactly alike.
Each piece is handcrafted in limited quantities. Please complete the form below to submit your pre-order request. We will contact you shortly with payment and shipping details.
Pre-orderCowrie
Leather & Cowhide Bag
A wearable archive of gesture and place. The Cowrie celebrates the beauty of imperfection — each hide tells its own story through its unique markings, texture, and tone.
Each piece is handcrafted in limited quantities. Please complete the form below to submit your pre-order request. We will contact you shortly with payment and shipping details.
Pre-orderTolek
Gold-plated Earrings
Crafted by skilled West African artisans, finished in premium gold plating. Sculptural silhouettes blend cultural heritage with contemporary sophistication. This earring is available in two colorways.
Each piece is handcrafted in limited quantities. Please complete the form below to submit your pre-order request. We will contact you shortly with payment and shipping details.
Pre-orderDjenné
Gold-plated Earrings
Named after the great ancient city of Djenné — these earrings carry the memory of centuries of West African craftsmanship. Timeless and distinctive.
Each piece is handcrafted in limited quantities. Please complete the form below to submit your pre-order request. We will contact you shortly with payment and shipping details.
Pre-orderAn evolving collection of visual references, research, and observations — from architectural details to archival discoveries and material studies.
In the workshops of West Africa, gold is not a commodity — it is a language. Each tool mark, each heated curve, carries the memory of a gesture taught by hand, passed from one generation to the next without written instruction.
The goldsmith's bench is a place of quiet intensity. Here, raw materials are transformed through patience and precision into objects that carry both aesthetic and ancestral meaning.
Every hide carries its own visual history — the marks, patterns, and tones formed over a lifetime. No two are alike. When we work with cowhide, we are not imposing a design; we are collaborating with a surface that already has something to say.
The Umber and Cowrie bags are born from this understanding — objects of encounter between craft intention and material truth.
The Great Mosque of Djenné stands as one of the most extraordinary architectural achievements in the world — its verticality, its textured skin of protruding wooden beams, its organic monumentality.
These forms echo in our jewellery. The Djenné earrings borrow from this visual grammar: weight held with lightness, structure that breathes.
Every piece begins with a skilled hand.
Created in collaboration with artisans across West Africa, our work honours techniques refined through years of practice and lived experience. Through careful making, raw materials are transformed into objects that carry depth, character, and permanence.
A celebration of human expertise, attention to detail, and the quiet value of things made well.
Each artisan brings a personal vocabulary of gesture and material knowledge, passed down through generations. In choosing to work this way, we choose permanence over convenience, and meaning over mass production.
Sankofa Studio is a multidisciplinary creative space founded by Mariam Sidibé, Visual Artist, Designer & Art Therapy Practitioner (trained in Art Therapy).
Rooted in West African heritage, the studio explores visual storytelling through art, design, material research, and craftsmanship.
Influenced by pre-colonial architecture, ancestral gestures, organic textures, and natural tones, the studio develops a quiet visual language shaped by memory, intention, and poetic restraint.
Working across visual art, creative direction, and object design, Sankofa Studio approaches creation as both an aesthetic and emotional language.