Natural sedge coaster
Natural sedge coaster
Thorrs
The colour in these coasters is not applied after weaving. It is dyed into the sedge before the mat is made - the threads tied and dyed in sections so that when the weaving begins, the pattern is already waiting inside the material. What emerges is that particular blurred, flame-edged gradient that is the signature of the ikat tradition: a colour that appears to move across the surface, deepening and lightening as the weave catches the light.
The sedge itself is grown on THORRs' own cultivated lands in Amnat Charoen Province, in the northeast of Thailand - a region where this craft has been practised for generations, on traditional looms, by women who have spent their lives at them. THORRs works with those weavers to bring the kok mat, the traditional Thai sedge mat, into a contemporary context. The technique is unchanged. The ambition for it is new.
Available in natural sedge. Each coaster varies slightly. That is the nature of the material and the method.
Hand-woven in Amnat Charoen Province, Thailand. Exclusive to Australia through The Leopard.
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Product information
Hand woven sedge
11cm x 11cm
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.
