Material Lineage Organic Cotton Twill Cap — Jungle

Material Lineage — Study 02

Cultures at Risk Collection

About the product

A considered everyday cap designed with clarity, durability and restraint.

Crafted from 100% organic cotton twill, the substantial 271 g/m² fabric provides dependable structure while maintaining breathable comfort. The unstructured crown creates a relaxed silhouette without compromising its clean, minimal appearance.

Designed with intention, the piece prioritises comfort, durability and long-term use.

Design & concept

Material Lineage explores how cultural knowledge can be carried through natural material.

Across many place-based practices, knowledge is not transmitted through instruction alone. It is developed through repeated contact with locally available materials—their weight, tension, grain, flexibility, resistance, preparation and response to use.

Fibre, wood, clay, reeds, bark, plant matter, stone and other natural resources can become part of a living system of observation and skill. Understanding develops through handling, making, correction and repetition, often across generations.

When essential materials become scarce, altered or inaccessible, the knowledge connected to them can also become harder to practise and pass forward. A material may remain physically present while the conditions required to gather, prepare or work with it gradually weaken.

For the compact surface of the cap, the wider Material Lineage composition has been reduced to three embroidered lines.

The outer lines remain continuous, while the central line carries a precise joining mark:

• parallel lines represent material continuity and accumulated knowledge
• the central interruption suggests a break in transmission
• the small perpendicular join represents an attempt to reconnect what has been separated
• the surviving structure reflects continuity without suggesting complete restoration

Rather than reproducing the entire artwork, the embroidered fragment preserves its essential principle: knowledge continuing through interruption and repair.

Positioned on the wearer’s left front panel, the symbol avoids the centre seam and maintains its visual clarity across the curved crown.

Rendered in Stone White against the Jungle twill base, the embroidery creates a warm, controlled contrast that remains visible without becoming visually dominant.

System Insight

MATERIAL LINEAGE
Material Continuity — Knowledge Transmission System

A minimal system exploring how cultural knowledge is carried through continued access to natural material.

Material knowledge develops through long familiarity.

Texture guides handling.
Resistance informs technique.
Repetition builds memory.
Material availability enables continuity.

When the material conditions supporting a practice begin to change, knowledge may not disappear immediately. It can become fragmented, less frequently practised or increasingly difficult to transfer through lived experience.

The cap carries a condensed fragment of this wider system.

Continuity carries knowledge.
Interruption marks separation.
The join represents attempted repair.
The fragment suggests a larger lineage beyond what is visible.

The composition is not a representation of any particular craft tradition or community. It is a research-led interpretation of how material scarcity and environmental change can affect the conditions through which cultural intelligence remains active.

An observation of knowledge held through material—interrupted, repaired and partially sustained.

Design & fit

The cap features a classic unstructured six-panel construction designed for everyday comfort.

Matching sewn eyelets provide ventilation, while the adjustable self-fabric strap allows a flexible fit.

• Unstructured crown
• Six-panel construction
• Curved visor
• Matching sewn eyelets
• Self-fabric adjustable closure
• Brass slider with hidden tuck-in

The three-line Material Lineage fragment is embroidered on the wearer’s left front panel, preserving the joining detail while avoiding interference from the centre seam.

Material & construction

• 100% organic cotton
• Fabric weight: 271 g/m² / 8 oz/yd²
• Durable 3/1 twill construction
• Stone White embroidery
• Organic cotton certified under OCS at material level, via the supplier
• Fabric tested under OEKO-TEX Standard 100
• PETA-Approved Vegan

Size & fit

One size fits most.

Adjustable self-fabric strap with brass slider.

Head circumference: 52–60 cm

Care & longevity

• Spot clean whenever possible
• Hand wash cold when necessary
• Use a mild detergent
• Reshape while damp
• Air dry
• Do not tumble dry

Designed for regular use and long-term wear.

Production note

This product is made on demand.

Producing only what is ordered helps reduce excess inventory and unnecessary overproduction.

Collection note

Part of Cultures at Risk — When Nature Fades, a research-led visual archive examining how environmental change can weaken the conditions through which cultural knowledge is practised, remembered and passed between generations.

Material Lineage is presented as an informed, non-literal interpretation rather than documentation of a particular culture, material tradition or community.