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Away Pacha: Weaving Andean Thinking
Away Pacha is a textile project developed by Sofia Hott, a Chilean textile artist and designer whose work explores the intersections between craftsmanship, design, and cultural sustainability. With over a...
Away Pacha: Weaving Andean Thinking
Away Pacha is a textile project developed by Sofia Hott, a Chilean textile artist and designer whose work explores the intersections between craftsmanship, design, and cultural sustainability. With over a...

The Grass Quilts: Wally Dion’s Prairie Prayer
The Grass Quilts series by artist Wally Dion is a vivid exploration of Indigenous culture and ecological interconnection. Dion, a Canadian artist of Saulteaux ancestry and a member of the Yellow...
The Grass Quilts: Wally Dion’s Prairie Prayer
The Grass Quilts series by artist Wally Dion is a vivid exploration of Indigenous culture and ecological interconnection. Dion, a Canadian artist of Saulteaux ancestry and a member of the Yellow...

Tools for Freedom: Audrey Demarre in Conversati...
Audrey Demarre is a French embroiderer, curator, and writer whose poetic approach to text and textile invites a radical slowness in how we view memory, identity, and feminine craft. Her...
Tools for Freedom: Audrey Demarre in Conversati...
Audrey Demarre is a French embroiderer, curator, and writer whose poetic approach to text and textile invites a radical slowness in how we view memory, identity, and feminine craft. Her...

Design in Relief: Tactile Thinking with Chiaras...
Since founding her studio in Venice in 2002, Chiarastella Cattana has woven a world in which Italian textile heritage and contemporary design sensibility meet on equal terms. Her practice is...
Design in Relief: Tactile Thinking with Chiaras...
Since founding her studio in Venice in 2002, Chiarastella Cattana has woven a world in which Italian textile heritage and contemporary design sensibility meet on equal terms. Her practice is...

Natalina Figarella: Four Decades of Corsican Ba...
A vannière’s life dedicated to preserving and reimagining an ancient craft. Written by Johanne Bertaux-Strenna. Last spring in Corsica, on an unseasonably warm day, I travelled to meet master basket...
Natalina Figarella: Four Decades of Corsican Ba...
A vannière’s life dedicated to preserving and reimagining an ancient craft. Written by Johanne Bertaux-Strenna. Last spring in Corsica, on an unseasonably warm day, I travelled to meet master basket...

Roots and Reeds: A Bonacina Family History
Rattan begins as a wild thing—climbing, twisting, unpredictable—until it meets the heat of human hands. In the book Bonacina: The Beauty of Rattan, this transformation becomes art, tradition, and a...
Roots and Reeds: A Bonacina Family History
Rattan begins as a wild thing—climbing, twisting, unpredictable—until it meets the heat of human hands. In the book Bonacina: The Beauty of Rattan, this transformation becomes art, tradition, and a...