Blended framed woven wall art 02
Blended framed woven wall art 02
Thorrs
Each panel reads like a frequency - deep indigo on both sides, pressing inward, and a pale vertical band at the centre where the natural sedge has been left undyed. The ikat process works from the outside in here: the threads bound and protected at their centres before dyeing, so the colour cannot reach. What remains is a strip of light, ragged at its edges, that appears to vibrate against the dark ground on either side of it.
Two panels, one frame. The white space between them is part of the composition - a pause between one frequency and the next, or an echo. They are not quite identical. The variation is the hand.
Woven sedge from THORR's own cultivated lands in Amnat Charoen Province, northeast Thailand, framed with white matting. Hand-woven in Amnat Charoen Province, Thailand.
Exclusive to Australia through The Leopard.
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Product information
Hand woven sedge
Frame 50cm x 70cm
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.
