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Shaw Contract Dye Lab
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Shaw Contract Dye Lab

Product catalog summary
Overview of Dye Lab Collection
The Dye Lab collection by Shaw Contract features tiles inspired by natural dyes, offering a diverse color range that mimics naturally dyed textiles. It aims to enhance spaces like workplaces and meeting rooms with either intimacy or expansiveness.

Color Palette and Inspiration
The palette is inspired by natural dyes such as Madder Root and Osage Orange, retaining popular colors while introducing new shades. It includes intense hues, softer washes, and neutral tones.

Innovative Manufacturing Process
The collection uses techniques mimicking ancient fabric dyeing methods, resulting in colors with depth and nuances, creating a natural harmony.

Unique Characteristics
Each tile is unique with variations in shade and marbling, offering hundreds of variations, enhancing the collection's luxurious appeal.

Key Color Descriptions
  • Fustic Wood: Bright yellow and green hues.
  • Black Tea: Saturation changes from light to deep taupe.
  • Osage Orange: Vibrant yellows to olive greens.
  • Cornflower: Medium to dark stormy blue shades.
  • Woad: Teal to deep indigo blue-green.
  • Saxon: Greener shades from indigo.
  • Iron: Black, charcoal, and grey shades.

Conclusion
The Dye Lab collection showcases Shaw Contract's innovative design approach, offering a luxurious and nature-harmonious color range.
Natural Dyes
The document details various natural dyes and their colors, including:
  • Iris: Deep purples and greens to muted turquoise.
  • Indigo: True blue, transforming from yellow to blue.
  • Sandalwood: Pink, salmon, orange, and brown.
  • Henna: Beiges and warm greys.
  • Beet: Soft to vibrant pinks and purples.
  • Lac: Plum purple hue.
  • Sumac: Intense warm grey shades.
  • Madder Root: Orange, brick, and fiery red shades.
  • Brazil Wood: Rich red dye.
  • Cochineal: Intense red with saturation changes.
Technical Specifications
  • Light Reflectance Values (LRV) and L*: Indicate light reflection and absorption, crucial for interior lighting and color contrast.
  • Carpet Tile Specifications: Includes style name, product type, manufacturing method, dye method, dimensions, and material composition. Tiles are tufted, cut pile, and piece dyed.
Additional Information
Guidelines emphasize using chair pads and walk-off tiles to prevent wear. Color variations are not defects.
Specifications
  • Total Thickness: 8.1 mm
  • Effective Pile Thickness: 5.2 mm
  • Total Mass: 3483 g/m2
  • Nominal Total Pile Mass: 1221 g/m2
  • Effective Pile Mass: 840 g/m2
  • Pile Density: 0.162 g/cm3
Acoustic and Environmental Information
  • Sound Absorption: 27 dB
  • Sound Absorption Coefficient: 0.20 αw
  • Warranty and recycling information available online.
Recommended Installation Methods
  • Quarter Turn
  • Monolithic
  • Ashlar
  • Brick
  • Random
Compliance and Certification
  • DOP 0338/CPR/1013/0116/T
  • EN 14041:2004/AC 2006
  • EcoWorx® carpet tiles for indoor floor covering
Contact Information
Includes corporate headquarters and international contact numbers, along with email contacts for specific regions.
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Catalog excerpts

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A New Palette Takes Root Shaw Contract revisited the iconic Dye Lab collection with newly curated colourways. Dye Lab tile draws inspiration from natural dyes and mimics the colour shifts rendered in naturally dyed textiles, creating an elegant and unpredictable visual. Dye Lab brings lush intimacy or expansive boldness to the spaces where we work, rest and come together. Une nouvelle palette prend forme Het is tijd voor een nieuw palet Eine neue Palette etabliert sich Shaw Contract a revisité sa collection emblématique Dye Lab avec de nouvelles couleurs. La dalle Dye Lab s’inspire de coloris...

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(Upper left | En haut à gauche | Links boven | Oben links) Painting by Blayne Beacham Macauley

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Experiment in Colour Dye Lab’s palette draws inspiration from nature, a colour journey of experiments with natural dyes including Madder Root, Osage Orange, Sandalwood and Saxon. Keeping the most beloved colours from the original Dye Lab collection and adding a variety of new shades, an updates palette unfolded with intense, saturated hues, softer washes and a wider range of neutral tones. L’expérience de la couleur La palette de couleurs de Dye Lab s’inspire de la Nature, elle se traduit par un parcours coloré autour de différentes nuances de colorations naturelles comme par exemple Madder Root,...

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Challenge the Process We challenged the traditional piece dye process and developed an innovative approach that mimics ancient wash and dye techniques of folding and bundling fabric. The result of Dye Lab’s manufacturing process yields an unprecedented depth to the colour with artful, random nuances, progressing from light to saturated - an irregular beauty, harmonious with the natural world. Nous avons défié les procédés de fabrication traditionnelle du teint en pièce en développant une approche innovante qui imite les techniques ancestrales de la teinture consistant à plier et assembler les...

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“To create the visual for Dye Lab we confronted our process and challenged manufacturing to forget everything they thought they knew about how a piecedyed product was made. We altered the status quo and created a product that is truly unique.” « Pour créer les motifs de Dye Lab, nous avons confronté nos procédés de fabrication et mis au défis nos usines d’oublier toutes leurs connaissances sur la fabrication des produits teint en pièce. Nous avons changé les règles et créé un produit véritablement unique ». “Bij het creeren van de kleur optiek van Dye Lab gingen we de confrontatie aan met het...

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Irregular Beauty Each colour in the Dye Lab collection has many variations and ranges from light to medium to dark, from subtle to rich. Every tile is unique in its shade and marbling. The collection contains hundreds of mutable variations, subtle ranges of luxe colour and texture, so that no two carpet tiles are ever the same. Un esthétisme irrégulier Chaque couleur de la collection Dye Lab présente de nombreuses variations allant du clair au sombre, d’un ton subtile à très prononcé. Chaque dalle est unique de par ses nuances et ses marbrures. La collection offre des centaines de variations...

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Black Walnut The green fruit husks and bark of Les cosses de fruit vert et l’écorce the black walnut tree produces du Noyer d’Amérique produisent Rinde des Walnussbaums bringt warm, deep taupes to light greys. des couleurs taupes chaudes et walnotenboom produceren warme, warmes, tiefes Graubraun bis zu profondes jusqu’à des gris clairs. diepe taupes tot lichte grijstinten. hellen Grautönen. Fustic Saxon When the yellow dye of fustic wood Combineer de gele kleurstof Wenn der gelbe Farbstoff der de bois de “ Mûrier des teinturiers ” the colours shift from chartreuse to s’associe avec le Bleu de...

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Fustic Wood The heartwood of this tropical tree, Le coeur du bois de cet arbre Het kernhout van deze tropische Das Kernholz des tropischen Baum, which is related to the mulberry, tropical s’approche du mûrier. Il produces bright, clear yellow and produit une couleur jaune vif et des moerbei, produceert helder gele en ist, produziert helles, klares Gelb brilliant green hues. reflets verts brillants. briljant groene tinten. und grün leuchtende Farbtöne. Black Tea A timeless classic, steeped black Ce classique temporel est issu Een tijdloze klassieker. Doordrenkte tea creates intense saturation...

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Osage Orange Wood shavings from the Osage Les copeaux provenant d’Osage Houtkrullen van de Osage Orange, Holzspäne von Osage Orange, ein orange, a tree native of Arkansas, Orange, un arbre originaire een boom afkomstig uit Arkansas, Baum, der in Arkansas, Oklahoma Oklahoma and Texas, produce Oklahoma en Texas, produceren und Texas heimisch ist, produzieren a range of vibrant yellows to Texas, produisent une gamme een reeks van levendige gele tot eine Reihe von leuchtenden olive greens. de couleurs allant du jaune vif olijfgroene kleuren. jusqu’au vert olive. Knotweed The leaves of dyer’s knotweed,...

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Woad Woad, a yellow flowering plant, Woad est une plante herbacée Woad, een plant met gele Woad, eine gelb blühende Pflanze, yields a blue dye ranging from à fleurs jaunes. Elle produit un bloemen, levert een blauwe ergibt blaue Färbung, die von low-saturated teal to deep indigo colorant bleu allant d’un bleu kleurstof op variërend van zacht wenig gesättigten Aquamarin zu canard faiblement saturé à un verzadigd groenblauw tot diep tiefem Indigo-Blaugrün reicht. profond indigo bleu-vert. Cornflower The intense blue blooms from the Les fleurs bleues intenses de Bleuet De intens blauwe bloemen van...

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Saxon Saxon blue, a derivative of indigo, Le Bleu de Saxe est un dérivé de Saksisch blauw, een afgeleide van Sächsisches blau, eine Art von produces a greener shade than l’indigo. Il produit une teinte plus indigo, produceert een groenere Indigo, produziert einen grüneren traditional vatted indigo. It is a verte que l’indigo traditionnel. Il tint dan traditioneel indigo. Het is source for teal, aqua, cornflower, est à l’origine des couleurs bleu een basis voor groenblauw, aqua, Es ist eine Quelle für Aquamarin, periwinkle, lilac and medium canard, aqua, bleuet, pervenche, korenbloem, maagdenpalm,...

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