🧦 Clothing and Product Manufacturing
Activities
Silk Weaving Workshop
The silk line runs from raising silkworms through reeling thread to weaving on manual looms—methods handed down mother to daughter. A cluster of women from the commune and nearby villages now runs the workshop as a cooperative enterprise that began slowly but is beginning to yield steadier returns.
Resource Transformation and Material Development
A central focus involves identifying and transforming undervalued resources into valuable products and materials. They work with Mérinos d'Arles sheep wool, exploring natural dyeing techniques and new applications that can reactivate industries and reconnect value chains while avoiding plastics. The organization examines how seeds can be made with rice—common in the Camargue—and explores the leftovers of olive pressing, extruding and mixing them with minerals to create chairs. They investigate salt—one of the most abundant materials in the world—exploring crystallization processes that only use wind and sun to produce wall applications in buildings, valuable for energy-efficient construction. Beyond material development, they create software and documentation for these age-old materials, showing how they can be used in different ways and shared with design communities.