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In 2022, Weft visited Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, as part of an R&D trip exploring traditional textile practices and natural dyeing within Zapotec weaving communities.

Natural dyeing in Oaxaca exists at the intersection of circularity, material intelligence and cultural preservation; knowledge passed through families over generations, carrying both technique and memory. Despite periods where synthetic dyes nearly displaced these practices entirely, many artisans have continued to protect and revive them, keeping ancestral methods alive through weaving, colour and land-based knowledge.

Matter as Memory is a
practice-led research project
that explores the ecological,
cultural, and material
implications of harmful
algal blooms along South
Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula.

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100% linen sheer curtains for Chaucer Residence, St Kilda.

Visited Marrakech in 2024, where natural dyeing is a process that has been developed over generations, based on local materials and technical knowledge.

Colour is sourced from plants and minerals—indigo, saffron, madder—chosen for how they interact with fibre and hold over time.

Within the medina, dyeing takes place in open-air workshops where factors such as temperature, water, and duration are carefully managed. The result is colour that is embedded in the material, with slight variation as a direct outcome of the process, reflecting a consistent approach to making, where material behaviour and control are central.

That warp & that weft for .adl photographed by

Weft’s bedspread ‘Matter A Memory’.
Constructed from organic cotton dead stock, hand dyed with eco dyed for .

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Matter As Memory; A practice led project, experimenting with eco and algae dyed textiles to explore ecological imbalance.

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The sweetest Bistro curtains constructed from 100% flax linen for .adl.

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Australian made from organic fibers.

Matter As Memory is a practice-led research project exploring the ecological, cultural, and material implications of harmful algal blooms along South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula.

Through the slow hand-dyeing of circular curtains using eco and algae pigments, the work becomes both archive and witness—tracing environmental change, fragility, and care.

Developed within Weft Textiles, it bridges exhibition and commercial practice, proposing design as a vessel for listening—to place, to Country, and to the more-than-human world.