Yak 02 framed woven wall art
Yak 02 framed woven wall art
Thorrs
The upper half earns the lower half. Large-scale chevrons in black and natural cream, woven tightly enough that the pattern has an optical quality - the kind that holds the eye in place and makes it work. Then, mid-panel, it stops. The lower half is plain undyed sedge: quiet, uniform, the same material with nothing asked of it. A thin black band runs across the base.
Three registers in one piece. The first demands attention. The second offers relief. The third closes it.
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.
