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Mira Sohlén’s silver lining
Mira Sohlén creates her improvisational, sculptural, assemblage-like 'shape study' tapestries with a gun tufter—a rug-making technique where a hand-held gun-like electrical tool creates a pile surface in lieu of the traditional techniques of hand-weaving and...
Mira Sohlén’s silver lining
Mira Sohlén creates her improvisational, sculptural, assemblage-like 'shape study' tapestries with a gun tufter—a rug-making technique where a hand-held gun-like electrical tool creates a pile surface in lieu of the traditional techniques of hand-weaving and...
Glimpses, glitches, and gesture: cc-tapis reveals a new collection
cc-tapis invited five designers to interpret the concept of gesture as hand-knotted rugs for the Gesture Project. Denna Jones investigates
Face the felt
Iranian artist Salman Khoshroo faced the fear of coronavirus by creating portraits in a new medium: felt. Denna Jones learns how making art provides power and comfort in stressful times
The original: The Polonaise
To be truly knowledgeable about design, you need to understand its origins, an idea that seems particularly relevant to rugs. Here we discuss the Polonaise, new versions of which have been in focus recently.
A postcard from Sardinia: Food, fables and fabrics
On a six-day tour of Sardinia organised by the Memory Wefts project, Lucy Upward explores traditional local weaving techniques and textile customs and gets a real sense of the Mediterranean island past and present
Oh so Zeki!
The flamboyant Turkish cultural icon and pop star Zeki Müren was also a talented textile designer whose name has become synonymous with a colourful group of mid-century rugs. In COVER 53 Malika Browne discusses Müren’s work with Istanbul-based carpet dealer and fellow Zeki fan Hüseyin Kaplan
Saving the tigers
A major new fundraising project, Tomorrow’s Tigers, featuring limited-edition art rugs was launched to support a global commitment to double tiger numbers in the wild by 2022. The rugs, which appeared in COVER 53, will be on show at Sotheby’s New Bond Street premises in London, 29 January-4 February 2019.
Weavers’ worlds
New publication Weaving: Contemporary Makers on the Loom offers a glimpse into the practices of many contemporary international weavers, highlighting relevant topics for the makers of today. Add it to your Christmas wish list now!
Design expedition to Ukraine with FAINA Collection
Last month, four international design experts, Roberto Baciocchi, Laura Snoad, Anna Lina Leno and Madeleine Asplund, embarked on the first-ever design expedition to Ukraine with FAINA Collection. In the village of Yavoriv, the participants experienced the ancient technique of making Hutsul wool carpets. COVER spoke with Nataliia at FAINA to find out how the designers interacted with the weavers, and what the outcomes were.
Christopher Farr x Irene Infantes
The cover rug from our last issue came about as a result of premier rug brand Christopher Farr spotting the work of talented Spanish textile designer Irene Infantes at her graduate show at Central Saint Martins in 2016. Now the two have released a rug collection based on Infantes’ textile series The Social Life of a Material.