Materials & Dyes
The dye floor.
Every colour here is grown, foraged, or fermented. The swatch is the truth; the recipe is the process. Each material is woven to a finished bolt before it leaves the studio.
A week-long ferment yields a blue that oxidises in air as the cloth lifts from the vat. Each dip deepens the warp.
Weld gives the oldest clear yellow in the European dye tradition. Mordanted wool holds it through a hundred washes.
Madder root, never boiled, draws a warm rose from the fibre. Heat it too hard and the red turns brick.
Walnut hull is a substantive dye — it needs no mordant to fix. The brown shifts cooler as the bath ages.
Hemp warp left exactly as the field gave it. The greenish cast softens to oat after the first wash.
No single plant gives a true green; you build it. Weld first, indigo over — the order is the recipe.