Common Thread: The Anou Residencies
In our first Anou residency, UK-based designer Sabrina Kraus López lived with Anou artisans in the Atlas Mountains (Morocco), collaborating on new designs and approaches based on Amazigh’s traditional weaving techniques. Over a one-month period, Sabrina worked with six artisans to create the Common Thread collection, a series of bespoke hand woven rugs inspired by Berber’s heritage, surroundings and personal stories.
The outcomes of the residency will be on display at designjunction, as part of London Design Festival 2014 in an exhibition curated by Faculty. In a reciprocal exchange, four Anou artisans travelled to London for the first time and visit the London Design Festival to meet with leading UK designers, craftspeople and institutes to share their practice.
For more information, visit:
http://design.britishcouncil.org/blog...
Also, see: www.theanou.com
Film by Simon Mills (www.photosby.si)
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