WEAVE
Textile Installations · Est. 2018
Selected Works
Commissions across three continents — each one a conversation between material and place.
2024
Paris, France
A twelve-foot suspended tapestry commissioned for the lobby renovation of Hôtel des Artistes. The piece narrates the Seine through abstracted horizontal bands — pale linen at the base, deepening through natural indigo into near-black silk at the crown. Woven over four months on a floor loom, the work shifts appearance as lobby light changes from morning to evening.
"The tapestry changed the whole temperature of the room. Guests stop mid-lobby to look up."
2023
Los Angeles, USA
Mara came with a frequency spectrum — literal audio data from her studio sessions. The challenge was translating sound into thread density. High frequencies became fine silk at tight intervals; bass frequencies became thick wool with loose warp. The resulting 3×3 ft piece was photographed for the LP cover by photographer Lena Vasquez and went on to be exhibited at the LACMA store.
"She gave me audio files. I gave her back something you could feel the sound through your eyes."
2023
Milan, Italy
Maison Ferré's creative director wanted coat linings that felt like secrets — visible only to the wearer. Six custom jacquard patterns were developed over three months, each referencing a different historic textile tradition: Ottoman tile, Andean weaving, Japanese kasuri, Moroccan zellige geometry, Scottish tartan, and West African kente. Seventeen pieces from the AW23 collection were featured in Architectural Digest's fashion issue.
"Six patterns, six histories, six reasons to keep the coat on long after you're home."
The indigo won't hold. Third batch this week. I've been pulling the silk too fast through the mordant bath — the fiber needs time to drink the dye, not be forced through it. There's a lesson here about everything, probably. Slowed down. The fourth batch bled purple into the warp like a bruise spreading through silk. Exactly what I wanted.
The Studio
Every commission is made by hand, in one studio, by one person. That constraint is the work.
Natural Dyeing
Indigo, weld, madder, iron — each bath calibrated by temperature and time, not formula.
Floor Loom
A 1960s AVL 12-shaft floor loom. Every commission begins here.
Material Library
200+ fiber varieties sourced from Japan, Peru, Ethiopia, and Scotland.
Installation
Every piece is designed for how it will live — shadow, distance, light quality.
Scale
From 2ft album covers to 20ft lobby installations — same precision, different gravity.
Watched the installation team hang the tapestry wrong for forty minutes before I said anything. The piece needs to breathe — two inches from the wall minimum, so the shadow it casts becomes part of the work. When they finally got it right, the light from the atrium caught the selvedge and the whole lobby went quiet. Three strangers stopped walking. One of them reached out and touched it. The sign says please don't. Nobody read the sign.