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Our New Collection – The Fabrics and Artisans continued...

  CORE ORGANIC ECRU and INDIGO ‘DENIM - CHAMBRAY’, PEDAL LOOM, JOLOB. This is the first time we partner with Jolob, led by Alberto Gómez.  He has quite a team up in the mountains of San Andrés Larrainzar, who focus on the simpler of the pedal loom fabrics, albeit entirely handmade.  With Alberto we are teaming up to produce a series of artisanal core fabrics that we will keep running from one collection to the next and elevated with special details and embroideries. . . Our Core Organic Ecru is made entirely from the exclusive regenerative and organic cotton that is grown across Chiapas, Oaxaca and Chihuahua by Julio Dominguez (our long term supplier) and his vast network of farmers. ...

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RM INSPIRATION : EDUARDO TERRAZAS

Hello, welcome back to another blog post! In anticipation of our upcoming relaunch in 2024, I thought I’d tell you about one of our inspiration starting points for this new collection –  let me reiterate 'starting points'– even the research for a collection can take many twists and turns, and we're ending up with something quite different, but the origins are fundamental.  . (Click on highlighted words for links to extra info!) . So, let's take a look at on of our early inspirations– Eduardo Terrazas... . Eduardo Terrazas (born 1936, Guadalajara, Mexico)– is a Mexican contemporary artist who knows no bounds with colour, shape and composition– was the perfect starting point to get me into the spirit!    Surprisingly, I only...

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TEXTILE INSIGHT PT 2: THE BROCADE WEAVE OF ZINACANTÁN & THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MAGDALENA DRESS.

"...I was tempted by their cross-stitch embroidery, but it was simply too time-consuming and expensive to start the project with.  I was also tempted by the 'deshilado' technique (see pictures below).   But it was their brocade technique that really got me excited, layered and slick patterns in raised textures over stripes- vibrant colours and what was most surprising was the clean finish!"

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