In local color, dye processes represent methodological flows from dye matter to colouring matter all the way to dyed fibers.

Flowing through harvesting, steeping, mordanting, fermenting and oxidating processes, raw colors undergo a multiplicity of processes in order to become applicable to fibers – these processes became more streamlined in the last couple centuries – but by standardising procedures, which other processes got forgotten? 

TextileLab re-explores alternative processes throughout the local color project – in terms of dye processes – this takes shape into a collective memory mapping of current practices, at all different scales, for all different types of approaches.

The maps created will be published as an ever growing and always expanding collection of possibilities in the ever lasting research to alternative paths that are sustainable in a specific given context and period of time.