There is a drawer in the studio, second from the bottom on the west wall, containing roughly four hundred textile samples. Every one of them was rejected.
They are not failures. They are near-misses: the right colour in the wrong weight, the right weight in the wrong width, a dye lot that arrived three shades off and turned out to be more interesting than the one we ordered.
Named for the room
Each reference in the Heritage collection carries the name of the project that produced it. Verneuil Champagne is the mohair from the Paris salon. Aravalli Saffron took four months and thirty-one samples to agree.
Nothing in the collection is printed. Every colour is in the yarn, which means every colour ages rather than fades.
The drawer is still there, and still filling. There will be a second collection.
Written by
Ines Duarte
Filed under Materials on 24 February 2025.
