Soft wax and delicious liquids are made by hardworking yet vulnerable bees, which are essential for our planet and its biodiversity. They fly up and down across the fields, alighting on flowers and gathering precious materials. Hungry and eager, they collect quantities of pollen and store it between their hairs, like the golden threads in a fabric by Blue on Blues Fashion Fabrics. The stripes on a bee’s abdomen resemble the GRS certified woollen fabric by Morganti Brunetto, joining with the hive amongst the branches of a tree. Flying back to the hive, the cells momentarily look like the trompe-l’oeil weave of a Cervotessile fabric in certified recycled polyester. Some hives are circular and sloping while others are housed in wooden boxes, resembling the print in Mapel’s virgin wool. The frames inside are inhabited waxy nests, a dense ochre and brown latticework like the wool and linen checks by M.T.T. Manifattura Tessile Toscana dotted with Sandra B buttons. Wax covers some of the hexagons creating a pale play of solids and voids, like a micro houndstooth pattern in RMS certified mohair by Bower Roebuck / Savile Clifford. It dries to a chestnut colour, like the warm tones of a tartan by Lanificio Cipriani, while a nub of royal jelly trapped in the cells at sunset is as gold as the palest honey, resembling a creation by Riopele Texteis. Humans and bees have always lived alongside one another, forming a collaboration that produces sweet and precious results in amber shades like Fitecom’s fabric.