Silk Cushion Cover: Cloud orange
Silk Cushion Cover: Cloud orange
Studio Naenna
Cloud is a traditional ikat design from Studio Naenna in Chiang Mai, hand-loomed in silk by Khun Wiroy.
Ikat is the slow art of dyeing the pattern into the thread before the loom is set. Each section of yarn is tied off, dyed by hand, untied, and only then woven - so the pattern emerges in the cloth as the weft passes through. The faint blurring at every edge is the signature of the technique. It is the proof of the hand.
A note on the cushions. The pattern is loomed in a continuous run, and each cushion is cut from a different section of it. The colourway and the design are as shown; the precise fragment will vary, and we cannot tell you in advance which part of the run will be yours.
No two are exactly alike.
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Product information
45cm x 45cm
Front: 30% silk, 70% cotton hand-loomed ikat
Back: 100% wool
About Studio Naenna
Studio Naenna is a small studio in Chiang Mai. Patricia Cheesman - Australian-born, a scholar of Tai weaving - founded it, and spent decades quietly insisting that the textiles of northern Thailand are worth keeping alive: a writer, a teacher, a collector of techniques that were close to disappearing. Her daughter Lamorna has run the studio since 2001; the work has not changed. The studio works with master weavers from the surrounding hills. The yarns are silk; the dyes are made by hand from the plants and minerals long used in the Lanna tradition - indigo, ebony, lac, mango bark.
Our current pieces - Planet, Cloud and Organ - are traditional designs, each hand-loomed in silk by Khun Wiroy, one of Studio Naenna's master weavers. Available as cushion covers and as throw rugs. The same patterns, the same hands.
Weeks of work go into each. The loom is set, the colour mixed, the pattern carried in the weaver's memory.
Exclusive to Australia.
