© Neige Sanchez
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"That rug really tied the room together."

“My grandmother always said, that there must be a mistake made in every carpet, to remind us that we are only human. She spent her whole life weaving carpets, which she learned from her mother - a fact I accidentally discovered. Entangled by this unexpected tie to weaving, I created a collection of carpets that continues my grandmother's story and tells one of my own.”  That rug really tied the room together is an installation conceived as a curated walk through memories. The project stems from a personal journey of discovering weaving as a technique for creating new spatial and material typologies. It reflects on the carpet as the key element of the domestic interior and challenges its traditional role as simple floor covering. The project aims to highlight women’s crucial, but often invisible, role in preserving and modernising this craft. Each hand-woven carpet examines weaving's dual nature - the strict mathematical and intuitive playful qualities that coexist together. By working with reused textiles and weaving, the installation celebrates slow and traditional ways of making and ancestral wisdom passed on through generations.

"That rug really tied the room together." - Alexandra Miskufova
© Neige Sanchez
"That rug really tied the room together." - Alexandra Miskufova
© Neige Sanchez
"That rug really tied the room together." - Alexandra Miskufova
© Neige Sanchez
"That rug really tied the room together." - Alexandra Miskufova
© Neige Sanchez
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