The tools lens explore how the community of practice that surrounds Local color can be enabled or connected between one another to create reliable networks that hold the tools for change.
Tools take many forms, from educational kits to DIY instruction to grow, to dye, to process matter, but also digital tools that inform the curious minds and supports them in the transition towards making the city productive and learn about their environment alongside the Local color project.
Dye kit with step by step instructions to use locally grown colors on a pair of socks 100% cotton
Explore the potential of fresh indigo leaves with this step by step booklet and tutorial!
Participants of this workshop grew their own indigo from the seedlings sprouted at Waag
At the wallenfestival 2024 visitors could pick up this magic dye packages! Complete of instructions, dye matter & mordants
Local color focuses on the resources that a city can produce, what are the systems and culture necessary for this transition to happen, while mapping the processes for growing, dyeing and extracting color from natural urban resources. The digital tools, aside from the various interactive catalogues for plant and color, or the maps, are also the ones that support digitalisation of the craftsmanship processes in using these natural resources.
The Tracks4Crafts project, another TextileLab project, focuses on creating and hacking digital drawing tools for printing dyes and mordants on textiles, to explore how technology can revolutionalize craft while maintaining its creative nature. It bridges processes, materials and tools towards a an ever evolving new set of possibilities of printing fabrics naturally.
Explore the Tracks4Crafts machine and hacks developments