NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND ACQUIRES INKY DRESS

We are honoured that the National Museums of Scotland have acquired our Inky Gather Dress, which is now part of their public fashion archive. 

Part of our collection, ‘Here: An Alternative Route,’ where we proposed alternative fashion systems prioritising the reuse of textile ‘waste’ into new garments and where we explored the replacement of petrochemical dyes with natural plant dyes. 

This dress showcases our trials into attaining the colour black without a synthetic dye content using only natural ingredients. The inky dye recipe consists of hand foraged oak galls, logwood extract and iron water. We use this to overdye digital print waste fabrics. Here, a silk, obtained from our partnership with Think Positive Prints.

This is the closest to a black dye we have thus far achieved.