Chapter 02 · Night cloth system
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Mud Writes at Night

The field carries the sentence

Deep Djenné indigo holds the page while burnt mud marks carry the argument.

Indigo ground

Every seam keeps a count

Strip-loom gutters divide the slide into measured cloth, not ornamental wallpaper.

Woven measure

Marks stay sharp, edges breathe

Mask cuts, ladders, and fish-spine diagonals read clear with a wet silt bleed.

Mud grammar

Reserve is used like lamplight

Bone-white appears only as a small cut of emphasis, never as the ground.

Quiet highlight