Tara woven wall art
Tara woven wall art
Thorrs
The same technique that gives THORR's placemats their colour - sedge threads dyed before weaving, so the pattern lives inside the material rather than on its surface - becomes something else entirely at this scale. Woven in deep indigo and natural sedge, the colour fading from saturated to pale in a gradient that has the quality of weather rather than design. At the edges, the raw ends of the sedge are left unfinished, hanging as fringe.
The sedge comes from THORR's own cultivated lands in Amnat Charoen Province, northeast Thailand, and each panel is hand-woven on a traditional loom by the same master weavers who have worked this craft for most of their lives. At placemat scale, the kok mat tradition reads as tableware. At this scale, it reads as something else: a record of the hands that made it, visible across an entire wall.
Two sizes available. Hand-woven in Amnat Charoen Province, Thailand.
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Hand woven sedge
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.
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