THE BIOLAB
The Biolab is where EIRINN HAYHOW does all her textile science experimentation, creating bio-materials, dyes, inks and potions using foraged and grown plants, crystals and waste matter.
Deeply connected with our natural world and its synchronised patterns, EIRINN HAYHOW carefully explores the foraging of wild plants, herbs and bark. The gathering of such natural resources for ceremonial activities and herbal medicines has occurred since ancient times; cultural practices which were aware of nature’s power in relation to the human body and mind. EIRINN is fascinated by the potential frequency of psychological energy waves emitted from plants and trees, and how these natural frequencies are synchronous with our hearts.
She makes all the material for her collections using a combination of intuition and research-led processes. From the array of different plants, barks and flowers she collects, inks, pigments and natural dyes are made before then reusing the waste plant matter and water from the dye baths. Extracting every potential from the material, she turns it into self-made biomaterial and plant leather. The plant leathers are infused with specific healing powers from plants and barks, learnt from her research into herbalism and ancient wisdom.