Wool is a living resource that has shaped Sabadell’s identity. The project seeks to reactivate its value by bringing together workers’ memory, innovation and sustainability. The initiative aims to revitalise Sabadell’s wool-working tradition from a present-day perspective, foregrounding craftsmanship, design, industry and sustainable innovation. Interwoven places wool at the centre of current debates on sustainability, reindustrialisation and heritage. ESDI – located in the former Sabadell docks, a historic logistics hub of the textile industry – promotes this space for exchange between traditional know-how and emerging circular manufacturing models.
Through circular economy and textile experimentation, the research concludes that the city of Sabadell can position itself as an international reference point, linking tradition and the future of local production and sustainable fashion.
“We began to wonder why we had not yet explored, from an ethnographic perspective, the significance of wool for the city of Sabadell. We discovered the importance of wool as a material with distinctive qualities, which proved to be a highly versatile material for use in interior design, architecture and other fields.” Encarna Ruiz, ESDI Academic Director