The material room

Dye. Bend. Find a feeling.

Living backgrounds you can pull, recolour, and make your own. Start with a study, then follow the material somewhere new.

A material, fitted to you.

Every thread
has a world.

Room for the work.
Texture for the feeling.

A flat colour preview. Live material needs WebGL.

Move to bend · tap to ripple

Your changes are saved on this device.

A seed keeps the composition. Change the dyes to explore the same material in a different world. Distortion bends its field; density changes its rhythm. Pause to hold a moment, then export a clean image.

Six ways to move. Currents pull threads together, interference reveals slower bands, contours follow changing heights, dye baths warp colour, pleats follow a centre, and silk changes colour with its folds.

From the Graphite workbench

Four more ways to find a pattern.

Native Graphite studies, selected from twenty variations. Download a drawing to explore its nodes in Graphite, or open a motion study to see the colours travel.

Chalk strata

Chalk strata

A repeated blue-and-paper ramp traces the same height field many times, building a landscape of contours.