The Alchemy of the Vat: Object-Dyeing Vegetable-Tanned Horsehide and the Architecture of Living Patina
Posted by Barbarossa Moratti onObject-dyeing represents the radical convergence of structural tailoring and fluid unpredictability, subjecting fully assembled vegetable-tanned horsehide garments to deep immersion baths. Through this alchemical baptism, each jacket contracts, morphs, and absorbs pigment unevenly, emerging as an unrepeatable second skin engineered to record the wearer’s lifetime of movement.