Rounding out our design collaboration with Jan Kath Design, we are thrilled to present another carpet collection: Woven Worlds, designed by Kyle Clarkson. The collection highlights an extraordinary range of hand woven carpets inspired by the extensive and diverse Andean textile collection at the Museum of International Folk Art.
A seasoned and hugely creative designer, Clarkson relished the challenge presented to all our licensees: do not reproduce the designs of the cultural material, instead translate them into new forms and expressions of the original.
The resulting collection, Woven Worlds, hand woven in Nepal and made of wool and silk, thoughtfully references the original material, but its final expression is singularly unique.
Within every cultural community, traditional garments serve two functions: to protect one from the elements and to express one’s identity and status. Woven into each are encoded signs and symbols that serve to differentiate one region, and its people, from another. In the Bolivian Andes, practical realities proscribe the parameter of the woven world, but the weaver’s mastery of the tradition alchemizes the fiber and pattern in miniature into a garment of other worldly beauty. These very same subtle clues are beautifully revealed and expressed anew in the Woven Worlds collection.
As with all our collaborations, a portion of the proceeds from the sale of Woven Worlds returns to the Museum to support exhibitions, acquisitions and education.
The collection is available for viewing at Jan Kath showrooms and through exclusive partnerships in six continents and 54 countries. For more information click here.