We think of needlework as a confined art. It takes one person, a little space and a lot of focus. And that would be a grand underestimation as there hardly could be a craft more potent in interconnecting stories and souls, an occupation more empowered to traverse geographies and time.
Luxury Lattice
Locked away in dusted treasure chests has been a model known as the “wrought iron lattice.” Overcome by its simplistic, yet powerful base ornament that corresponds to so many lines in modernly designed homes, we took to calibrating it to contemporary tastes.
Enlacing Stories
A Detail of Significance
The square that hosts St. Alexander Nevsky’s Cathedral in downtown Sofia has always been a favourite place of mine. An open, cobblestone area, it also provides a much needed connection between dealers of antiques in the textile and visual arts and visitors like me, looking for that one detail that sparks a new story line. It is there that I first encountered the “wrought iron design”, a pattern in a heavily ornamented tablecloth too jaded from time to attract the attention it so much deserved.
Breathing Life into Design
Excited about its geometric perfection and a look that pleases the eye, I took the model to our most experienced dentellière for a review. Loop by loop, she recreated the base and adjusted it to the lengths, widths and angles that we needed for a bedlinen set.
Because of the straight lines, however, it was possible to make it even better. Rather than attaching the design onto the fabric, we could strengthen the borders to allow it to be sewn into the fabric, making for a delicate transparent look.
Solid Structure
Back in the days when homes were largely self-sufficient, casting iron to mold in the metal necessities at homes was a challenge for the strongest and most skillful arms. In addition to fire to melt the metal, the iron required physical strength, dedication and resilience in order to be forged into items that were to provide structure, strength, protection in the home they served.
Forging a Cotton Lattice
In parallel, casting a lattice out of cotton demands hands of no less skill and resilience, and minds of no less creative force. The intention is the same – protection and support – but the materials and manner more delicate to the senses. Rather than pressure, the cotton thread needs precision, instead of force, the needle needs agile hands. The final piece, a cotton lattice, inherits the strength of its design, but it has added to it warmth. The “wrought iron” design in textile ornamentation serves as a symbol of protection, enlacing heirlooms with elegant structure, finished in a mild caress.
For the Most Exquisite Homes
The Luxury Lattice Collection gives space to the unknown artist of the past, the devoted home carer and beloved family member, delights with a modern-day cotton sateen of exquisite quality and unfaltering strength. The best of the past and the present are woven together in a bedlinen set that luxuriously supports those who carefully and with no compromise to the detail, select the stories that define them and the spaces they inhabit.
Size Guide
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