Collection: Thorrs

Amnat Charoen Province sits in the northeast of Thailand, in the region called Isaan - flat, dry, agricultural, and by most economic measures, among the country's most overlooked. For generations, the province's tradition was sedge weaving: a grasslike plant harvested by hand, sun-dried, dyed in hot water, and woven on traditional looms into the kok mat, a floor mat that had served Thai homes for centuries. A craft that was never considered design.

THORRs was founded to change that. Working with master weavers in Amnat Charoen - women who have been weaving sedge since before it occurred to anyone that the world beyond the province might want what they make - THORRs has taken the kok mat and reimagined it as contemporary homewares: placemats, floor mats, wall pieces, objects that carry the weight of a very old practice without any self-consciousness about it.

The sedge is grown on THORR's own cultivated lands. Each piece is hand-woven on a traditional loom. The weavers earn meaningful income without leaving their communities. The craft continues because there is now a reason for it to.

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