2026 · Ongoing
Bogolan performance study
Fermented-mud dye colourfastness under UV and salt exposure across 18 months.
Research
Open research programmes.
The house publishes what it learns. These programmes run with university partners, artisan cooperatives and independent laboratories.
2025–2027
Loom-to-lab pipeline
Digitising hand-loom tolerances so artisan cloth can enter industrial quality gates unchanged.
Field trial
Thermal drape index
A house metric for how a garment holds warmth without weight, tested across four climates.
Pilot
Circular gold finishing
Recovering and re-plating hardware gold within a single-site closed loop.
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