Signature Collection
Estela
A stele is a stone raised to keep a record — set upright so that something is not forgotten. This one is raised in thread.
Iron draws the frame, holds the tension and carries the hooks. A black warp stretches across it, taut and nearly transparent, closer to structure than to fabric. Against it, crochet arrives by hand: dense, slow, worked stitch by stitch in white, blue, ochre and grey. Two textile languages in one body. One disappears into the frame, the other becomes the drawing.
Crochet is an inherited domestic technique, learned at close range and small scale — a thing of the lap, the corner, the quiet hour. Brought to the height of a column, it stops being ornament and becomes architecture. What was made to cover a table or a shoulder now stands upright and holds the room.
The geometry does not repeat. Triangles meet, invert and break into each other across the three panels, so the eye keeps finding a rhythm and losing it again. And still it works as a coat rack — what hangs from the iron changes through the day, and the piece is built to be covered and uncovered without losing its figure.
Dimensions
W 79 cm × H 213 cm · base 33 cm deep · 31.1 × 83.9 in
Weight
Materials
Iron · cotton yarn
Application
Freestanding coat rack. Entryway, hallway, dressing room or bedroom. Also reads as a standalone textile piece when unhung
The Making Of
Then the slow part. The colour is crochet, worked stitch by stitch in cotton: white, blue, ochre and grey. No print, no repeat — each triangle is counted and built by hand, which is why the geometry meets and breaks without ever settling into a pattern. A piece this tall is measured in weeks, not hours.
Two techniques that rarely share a body. The warp is close to weaving, tensioned and structural; the crochet is domestic, freehand, worked in the round of the lap. Here one becomes the frame and the other becomes the image — the same thread doing two opposite kinds of work.