Chapter IIClothe

The fibre that clothes

clothe specimen

On clothing

Every fabric begins as a living thing. Cotton from a field. Linen from flax. Indigo from a leaf crushed in water. Somewhere between the plant and the garment, most brands lose the thread. The brands we gather here have not. They can trace every fibre back to the land. They chose their material before they chose their market.

The Thread

The linen on the shelf

Viore · handmade · naturally dyed

from flax grown without irrigation

Belgium · a crop that drinks only rain

chosen by people who picked the fibre before they picked the market

we chose them because they chose linen

The Root

Field Observation #002

Gossypium herbaceum. Desi cotton. The oldest cultivated cotton species on the subcontinent. One Viore shirt takes 1,500 litres less water than its conventional equivalent. Not because of technology. Because they chose the right plant.

Indigenous speciesIndian subcontinentRain-fed cultivation

Every thread remembers the hand that spun it.

Provenance № 002
Gossypium herbaceum