Tinctorial Frames are tonal compositions of two coloured wool pieces. Like a warp and weft of a magnified weave, the colours meet in the middle where they create a blend of due to their translucency. The four tonal works represent each a colour groups. The textiles used in the frames are Tinctorial Textiles. The organic wool is dyed with natural pigments and stretched over a greybord.
Tinctorial Textiles is designed by Raw Color for Ecological Textiles. As a new step in the research on natural pigment, the organic wool textile is dyed with natural colour pigments. The dyes used creating the fabrics derive from three plants: madder root / reds (Rubia tinctorium), reseda / yellows (Reseda luteola) and indigo / blues (Polygonum tinctorum). All dyes are purely applied in different concentrations to achieve more or less saturation. The fabric is developed with Ecological Textiles.
Permanent exposure to direct sunlight, close to a window, might influence the decolourisation process due to the natural dyes.
Tinctorial Frames have initially been developed together with The Invisible Party for The Usual Hotels.
w 32 x h 42 x d 3cm
