Woven in Colour
Editorial Design, Informational Design
Woven in Colour explores how language shapes our perception of colour and the world around us. The project emphasizes the urgency of language preservation through an interactive, research-driven editorial experience.
The project investigates how different languages categorize and name colours, and how this influences perception, culture, and identity. It examines how learning new languages expands our ways of seeing, thinking, and connecting. The outcome is an interactive book in which each chapter introduces a language with a unique number of colour terms, expanding the colour palette to reflect its linguistic structure. A companion book provides weaving materials and instructions, inviting hands-on interaction and personal engagement with the subject.
Each chapter introduces a new language with more colour terms than the last, paired with a weaving pattern to symbolize how we “colour our world” through language and cultural immersion. A monochromatic version of each pattern is printed inside the French fold, while the hand paper woven cover weaves together the colours from every stage.
Weaving shaped the visual system
Paper squares marked section numbers, paragraph lines mimic woven strips, section titles feature added or removed squares, and photography is fragmented into paper-like strips. Each pattern reflects the number of colour terms in that language and draws inspiration from a cultural element of that region.
The companion book includes instructions and pre-cut, perforated strips, inviting readers to weave the patterns as they read Book 1.
