Change of ‘route’: from the style-product-knitwear of fashion to the furnishing accessory: knit blankets and cushions!

A small story, a working method, a creative and manufacturing ability in the knitted interpretation of original solutions

For almost a decade a new, engaging path has been undertaken. My adventure began with a deliberate change, which considered a new choice (the previous one, as a fashion designer) in a vision that I pursued and then shared with passion competence and creative curiosity, giving value to a project: interpret in a different way ideas related to the knit home accessory.

A design concept that redefines blankets and cushions in an original way. A pleasant experimentation of pattern-colors-matter through the study of an industrial and artisanal production. Important note: the customization and the use of a symbol-element: the extra fine carded merino wool, a common thread of the same design and construction.

A touch of a Designer, which goes beyond the concept of decoration: what is beautiful harmonious pleasant to the touch and sight, remains desirable. The realization of a project made of details, eyes attentive to technical skill, love for a job well done, giving life to an object of value that can offer ‘small emotions’!

Often a blanket is perceived as an ordinary object, forgetting how it can be a significant element for connotations expectations and associations. It brings with it a promise of heat protection care. In life we need a protective blanket both physical and mental. A companion of our silences and games, in simple well-being; a quiet and safe haven. In the world we are greeted by a blanket…

And here comes into play the ‘blanket’ in its material quality: a wool thread that through its colors you can choose bold or discreet combination, where the pattern becomes the focal point.

The importance of color that each of us sees in a unique and personal way fascinates us in a different way. Choosing colors that satisfy the emotional well-being in how to feel and live the house, condition and interact with our state of things and help to connect: light-dark-hot-cold, contrasting shades.

Everything starts from the yarn, the one that then involves me: knitwear has its own world, which I have known and appreciated over the years and that I have never left, continuing to devote myself to the furnishing complement ‘rigorously’ in knit, leaving aside the speech of the handmade (taken up by many and in vogue).

Set of blankets in the colors white-gray-blue, made in the techniques of jacquard, inlay and knitting stitches

When we talk about blankets and cushions, we think of the shuttle fabric, which includes the various types of weaving tied (in the true sense of the word) with weft and warp, in jacquard and printed, while the knitted fabric (as well as jersey) is built differently (always through electronic machines or by hand). The row of bushings type ‘loop’ one inside the other, on the pre-arranged needles, with a round-trip movement (from right to left) straight and reverse in a full turn and if you pull the thread…

In knitting we start from the yarn to design and create a product (and not from the fabric already made). It’s the beautiful problem of this world. It may seem ‘secondary’ and linked above all to the accessory, but the mesh even in its limits is an ‘elastic’ reality that fits nicely, using the right thread and is functional to the various needs of our living ‘well’!

If you want to protect a human or animal puppy, the memory of the ‘dear sweater by the precise color’ with its strange smell-perfume after the rain, the shawls of the old grandmothers once and other ‘pieces’ of clothing to wear… If I think back to the strange effect I felt when I saw my grandfather’s swimsuit: knitted and felted wool.

Wool has its place in the history of different ethnicities, in stories, in fairy tales and in mythology itself, in wealth and poverty: it has a past, a present and will continue its path, always leaving a trace …

The 4 blankets in extra fine carded merino wool and cashmere cotton

Quality design can make a difference!  It’s a matter of head and heart: the magic of the project linked to talent in its expression, following a concept of

beauty and solution:

a functional emotion!

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