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As part of our ongoing Unpacking the Collection project, we collaborated with Autophoto to create this series of images using their analogue photobooths.
Using a selection of garments and objects from the collection, we worked with them to explore the possibilities and constraints of the photobooth medium.
Unpacking the Collection is an ongoing project that explores how garments and objects continue to generate new meanings through use, interpretation, and encounter. Through research, making, collaboration, and experimentation, the project seeks to uncover new ways of encountering these pieces and the ideas they contain. In doing so, it explores creativity as something that emerges through process, dialogue, and connection, and the ways in which meaning continues to shift over time.
On Saturday 13th June from 2-6pm for Hackney Art Week, we invite visitors to encounter a garment/object inside the analogue photobooth, and take a free photo strip.
Please RSVP [email protected]
Address: Unit 3, 39 Gransden Avenue, E8 3QA
10 Jun 2026
Our latest printed collaboration ‘Sacred Plants Vol.5’ will launch at this year’s Offprint London — a gathering of artists, archives, and independent publishers at Tate Modern.
“Vol. 5 considers the integral relationship between humans and plants through the lens of textile history. In collaboration with Lore Archive, it presents a photographic and written journey into the significance of plant based fabrics and the stories they carry” - Sacred Plants
For Lore Archive, the ’Sacred Plants’ collaboration is the first chapter in a deeper process of material exploration called ‘Unpacking the Collection’ — a project that explores specific materials through research, embodied engagement, and visual storytelling — beginning with surface knowledge such as cut, silhouette, embellishment and weave and using it as a point of entry to explore the deeper cultural, emotional, and ecological meanings held within the material.
Offprint London
16-18 May, 2025
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall
London, SE1 9TG
@sacredplants_
@nativebooks
@offprint_projects
15 May 2025
Newspaper Print Version of Lore Archive Journal 002 now available - £25 plus postage
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22 Mar 2025
Very proud to have Lore Archive featured in the October edition of @theworldofinteriors. And a really nice opportunity to ramble about my obsessions. Thank you @calumkingsleyknight for so thoughtfully putting it all into words, and @kasiawozniak for capturing it all through the intricate process of wet plate photography.
Also, thanks to @emily.k.tobin, @annamichaela @alice__inggs @ariadne_fletcher and @valmessersi for bringing it all together.
29 Oct 2026
Metal bra, featured in Journal 002.
Now available via the website shop - link in bio.
05 Oct 2026
Very excited to have our new website up, with a shop (more sale pieces arriving soon), a space for ‘Unpacking the Collection’, and information on booking archive research and rental appointments.
Please sign up to the newsletter to hear about upcoming events and workshops, and for updates on garment and object research.
Website designed with the multi-talented @supportingmaterial
03 Oct 2026
In Romania, this style of shoe is known as 𝘖𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪. Generally worn by elderly people and shepherds, or during traditional folk events and special ceremonies, the craft of hand making Opinci has been passed down in the family from father to son. Opinci have historically been made from a rectangular piece of leather, tight around the foot with leather crossover lacings along the calf; these sandals can still be seen today in more rural areas of Romania, although sometimes made of manmade fabrics such as tyre inner tube. The example in slide one is made of the rubber tubing of a tyre, one of the more unusual iterations of this style shoe that we hold here in Lore Archive.
Slide 1: Side view of Opinci, made from rubber tyres secured with metal rivets
Slide 2: Underside view of sole, featuring tyre tread and mud
Slide 3: Double page spread from ‘Peasant Art in Roumania’, George Oprescu, 1929, page 52
Slide 4: Joe Rush, founder of Mutoid Waste Army in rubber trousers
18 Aug 2022
It was lovely to have Elizabeth Kutesko at the archive last night for the launch of her new book, Fashion at the Frontier, and to hear her speak about fashion, photography and colonial modernity on Brazil’s Madeira-Mamoré Railroad.
Fashion at the Frontier will be on general release from 12 November, published by Bloomsbury. @elizabeth_kutesko @bloomsburyfashion @bloomsburypublishing
02 Oct 2026
Currently cataloging the archive, many more to go! Back open on Monday for appointments.
07 Sep 2022
Where museums organise according to chronology, geography or authorship; fashion archives by designer, season or brand; east London’s Lore Archive (@_lorearchive) resists convention entirely. Sophie Turner, the artist behind the collection of over 2,000 pieces, instead looks to a garment’s emotional register.
Find out more via link in bio.
Director & editor: @valmessersi
DOP: @iam_charliemoore
Senior designer: @annamichaela
Editor: @leticia_edits
19 Oct 2026
Slide 1: Scanned Composition of Napoleonic Fireman’s jacket and Vegetable Ivory Buttons
Slide 2: Tagua Nut photographed at the Economic Botany Collection at Kew Gardens
Slide 3: Image of the Tagua seeds being sliced with a rotary saw
Slide 4: Victorian vegetable ivory (Tagua) rattle
- Vegetable ivory is a plant alternative to ivory and is mostly made out of the seeds of different palm trees.
- This vegetable ivory is made out of tagua which is a hard seed from a South American palm tree.
- The scientific name is Phytelephas aequatorialis. Sometimes it is also called ‘The elephant tree’.
- The seed will also be called a nut. It is an oval/ball shape perfectly fitting in the palm of your hand. It often gets called a nut as well.
- It has a black/brownish shell like a coconut and when peeled of, shows a hard white, looking like ivory.
- It is often used to make objects, buttons or jewellery out of as it is very easy to carve into.
- It takes 15 - 20 years for the trees to produce ‘mococha’ which are cobs that can be up to 0.5m big. Each of them have 50 - 100 water filled capsules, this water is essential to all palm trees.
- After about 8 months after harvesting, the inside of the nut is soft and milky and can be drunk like a coconut. AT 10 months it hardens and can be eaten like a coconut.
- When the fruit’s are fully ripe and fall off the tree, that is when they are hard and can be used as ivory.
- Three times a year a palm can have around 10 - 20 mocha’s and 1 mocha contains about 20 nuts
- Tagua has been used in this way since the 1800’s
For more information on our research and development services please get in contact: [email protected]
06 Mar 2025
Launch of Journal 002 tonight with talk from @silviabombardini The shoplifters Clothes and Books from @supportingmaterial DM for link to buy either handmade copy for £45 or newspaper print for £28
06 Dec 2024
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