Blended framed woven wall art 01
Blended framed woven wall art 01
Thorrs
It takes a moment to understand what you are looking at. The image - natural sedge at the top, deep indigo rising from the bottom, the two meeting in a ragged, dripping line that reads like a horizon - looks, at first, like a painting. A particular kind of painting: colour field, restrained, the kind that asks you to stay with it rather than move on.
It is woven. The threads are sedge, grown on THORR's own cultivated lands in Amnat Charoen Province, northeast Thailand. The gradient is ikat - dye applied to the threads before the weaving begins, so the colour doesn't sit on the surface but lives inside the material. The fringe has been trimmed. The piece has been mounted and framed.
Framed with white matting. Hand-woven in Amnat Charoen Province, Thailand.
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Product information
Hand woven sedge
Frame 40cm x 50cm
About 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.
Exclusive to Australia through The Leopard.
