A capulana is a printed cotton panel about two metres by one, worn wrapped, slung as a baby carrier, tied as a headwrap, hung on a wall. The format arrived by sea from the sarong and the sari, then Mozambique added the thing that makes it local: a printed border running the full perimeter, holding its own pattern apart from the field it frames.

For four decades that field carried politics. Frelimo prints, Women's Day commemoratives, provincial maps ringed with spears and Nguni shields. This system takes the panel literally — square corners, flat opaque ink, a hard black outline, and colour plates that sit a hair off register.