Natural colour is never static. It transforms.
Natural dyeing with Brazilian dyestuffs.
From plant to piece
Every Lapso piece begins before the fabric — with the choice of plant, the moment of gathering, the decision of which fibre will reveal that colour.
The harvest
Everything begins in the field. Brazilian plants such as crajiru, catuaba and indigo enter the research at different moments and under different conditions. Leaves, bark, seeds and other parts of the plant each open up different possibilities of colour.
The season, the part used and how the material is prepared all shape the result, as does the choice of the fibre that best reveals that colour. There is no shortcut to this knowledge: it is built over time, through observation, practice and close contact with the material.
Origin — Brazil
The transformation
In the studio, the plant goes into the dye bath and the fibre is prepared with a mordant — the intermediary that creates the chemical bond between the natural dye and the cellulose or protein of the cloth. With indigo, the transformation happens through oxidation: the fibre emerges from the yellow-green vat and meets the air. The blue appears as you watch.
Lapso Atelier, Itatiba, São Paulo
The piece
No result is ever identical to the last. Shifts in temperature, concentration and time create small differences that make each piece its own. Two metres of linen dyed in the same bath come out slightly different — and that is the point, not a flaw. The gesture lives in the material.
One piece, one moment
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Every piece in the Lapso catalogue records the plant that gave rise to its colour, the mordant used and the fibre that received it. A living archive of materials, processes and nuances.
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The practice
Practice at the Lapso atelier is not production at scale. It is applied research: each technique is chosen for what it reveals about the material, and each piece is the result of a documented process. Cloth becomes a surface for experiment, record and transformation. The atelier is at once laboratory, archive and workshop.
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