Environmental Impact
Growing Colour Together is a natural dying project, and the flagship project for WOVEN23. Building on the work from 2021, Kirklees is set to become one giant colour garden. Communities, schools, allotment groups, projects and organisations are joining together to grow, harvest, forage, dye and create with naturally sourced dyes.
In a throw away and fast fashion culture how to do we make do and mend? WOVEN will be running Every Child Challenges and Repair Not Throw sessions, showing how we can all reduce our waste and save money and value our loved items.
DID YOU KNOW? Kirklees is home to some of the great innovations in textile science. Textiles influence almost every part of our lives from medical textiles to climate change, our landscape and leisure!
In 2021 we showcased science and innovation in textiles with talks from The Space Shed, shining a light on all the incredible work happening behind the scenes in Kirklees, and how it is inspiring the next generation of innovators. WOVEN23 will be looking deeper into how future developments are helping to save the planet.