Homelore operates at the intersection of craft, culture, and critical practice. We are a platform that uses textile arts; embroidery, stitching, dyeing, not merely as techniques, but as a language for investigating migration. Our core mission is to reframe the narrative around evolving cultures. We move beyond static, often colonial, ideas of “traditional” craft, instead engaging with culture as a living, fluid entity. We facilitate this by directly working with diaspora artisans to tell their own story. This is a deliberate design to decolonise the art-object’s relationship with its maker, shifting the role of the artisan from a source of labour to a sovereign storyteller. Through co-creation projects, we build communities where shared making becomes a methodology for inquiry. Each stitch, dye, and weave is a point of dialogue. A way to pose and answer complex questions about identity, place, and belonging. The resulting works are not just artifacts but rather embodied research, materialising the continuous evolution of culture itself. Homelore is for those who see design as a social process and craft as a powerful, untampered voice. We are building a new archive where the story is told by the hands that live it.
