Terrane woven wall art
Terrane woven wall art
Thorrs
This piece works in two registers. The upper panel is bold to the point of being graphic - a deep brown shape sweeping diagonally across natural sedge, its edge left as raw fringe so that the boundary between colours is soft, almost torn. From a distance it reads like a painting. Up close it is unmistakably woven, the texture of the sedge threads visible across every centimetre of it.
The lower section is a different conversation entirely: horizontal bands in grey-blue, cream, and ochre, with a chevron passage that shifts the rhythm again. Where the upper panel is gestural, this one is precise - each stripe and pattern a separate decision, a different technique, laid down in sequence.
Hand-woven in Amnat Charoen Province, northeast Thailand, by THORR's master weavers, using natural sedge grown on the brand's own cultivated lands.
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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.
Exclusive to Australia through The Leopard.
