Mini Bala× Chongming Handwoven Textiles
Woven memories. Everyday beginnings.
Bringing traditional textile culture into contemporary childrenswear.
How can heritage become part of a garment, as well as its story? For the Year of the Snake, we turned to traditional materials and textile culture.
- Heritage collaboration strategy
- Practitioner collaboration
- Traditional pattern research
- Product concepts
- Childrenswear design interpretation
02 / Collaboration
From the loom to a design language.
We invited a practitioner of Chongming’s handwoven textile tradition to collaborate, drawing on the craft’s weaving techniques, textures, colours and local culture to shape the design language of Mini Bala’s Lunar New Year capsule collection.
See the story unfold.
Project film / 02:09Original audio and embedded Chinese subtitles. Press play to watch. Open film ↗
03 / The outcome
A living tradition, made part of childhood.
The collaboration explored how traditional textile culture can move into everyday childrenswear, bringing heritage closer to contemporary childhood.
