Racines
Racines is a textile collection born from a unique partnership between Élitis, textile creator and editor, and LUMA through its design research laboratory Atelier LUMA.
The result of an exploration that is both aesthetic and environmentally engaged, this collection embodies a shared vision of bioregional creation – rooted in the territory and shaped by its local resources.
Élitis’ artistic direction meets Atelier LUMA’s research approach, and together, combining their complimentary textile expertise, reinvent supply and textile transformation chains while revaluing natural resources that are locally abundant.
Atelier LUMA’s textile laboratory examines every stage of textile process – from fiber to finishing – to develop a bioregional textile with qualities that highlight both material and color.
Ce dialogue fertile entre vision artistique et recherche appliquée a donné naissance à une collection de textures, motifs et couleurs inspirés par les paysages et l'histoire du territoire d'Arles - entre Camargue, Crau et Alpilles.
Chaque paysage a contribué par ses ressources à la collection. Trois végétaux sont utilisés pour leurs teintes naturelles : l’écorce du châtaigner qui offre une riche palette variant de beiges solaires à des bruns aux reflets dorés, la noix de galle qui naît du passage d’insectes sur des chênes et produit des teintes allant du gris subtil au noir profond, et pour finir le coreopsis, fleur aux pétales joyeux qui crée une palette oscillante entre le jaune léger au rouge écarlate.
La laine mérinos d’Arles, récoltée localement, est transformée grâce à un écosystème industriel régional.
Racines, thus lays the foundation for a new textile model: responsible, attentive to natural cycles, and deeply rooted in local cultures. It demonstrates that contemporary creation can rely on local resources and activate sustainable supply chains enriched by ancestral know-how.
Through this unprecedented collaboration with Élitis, textile creator and publisher , Atelier LUMA’s research takes on a true change of scale: the natural dyeing and textile transformation processes, most of which were prototyped within the Atelier, have now evolved into production methods capable of creating a large-scale, responsible collection — one that remains attentive to natural cycles and deeply rooted in local cultures and craftsmanship.
To discover the Racines collection : https://elitis.fr/fr/collections/tissu/racines