Aline de Laforcade is a French textile artist based in Ibiza whose work explores the potential of raw Mediterranean fibers, including wool, hemp, linen, and reclaimed natural materials. Her work ranges from sculptural murals to textile panels and spatial interventions with a vocation to interact with contemporary architecture. Interested in fibers and ancestral weaving techniques, as well as in vernacular architecture and ways of life, her works stand out for their powerful expressive force that moves between the ancestral, the organic, the aesthetic, and the contemporary, showing themselves at times structured and harmonic and, at others, chaotic and wild.
The New Origins collection is a design by Aline de Laforcade that explores the continuity between ancestral knowledge and contemporary design. It is a proposal with which the textile artist has paid tribute to the legacy of jute and wool, two of the materials most used in the Mediterranean throughout history, while avoiding a mere reproduction of the past. Her idea was, rather, to give continuity to ancestral languages and show how these can be transformed over time.
The surfaces of the rugs in the New Origins collection behave like small landscapes, in which the materials themselves shape their visual language. On one hand, jute has an earthy and comforting character that, although it may seem uniform from afar, reveals very subtle tonal variations up close that provide warmth and depth. For its part, the wool provides a very rich, soft, and enveloping texture.
The mixture of these two materials generates a constant dialogue between the structure of the design and the softness of its texture. To achieve this, its execution must be done by weaving artisanally at different levels, generating reliefs and three-dimensional volumes by varying the height of the wool pile, which is hand-knotted over the flat jute base.
The rectangular model in brown tones from the New Origins collection measures 216 x 300 cm. It is also available in white and in a smaller oval format: 190 x 240 cm.
New Origins is a model from our Hand Knotted rug collection
The hand knotted technique—which means knotted by hand—is a manual production method for rugs that allows for designs with great detail precisely because it is done knot by knot. It is a very laborious technique and, consequently, offers great flexibility of line. Bearing this peculiarity in mind, at GAN we project rugs to be made with this technique both with a uniform design and with an apparent randomness in the pattern.
Manufacturing technique
Hand Knotted + Hand Loom
Material
Fibre composition: 70% undyed wool and 30% jute
Sizes
216x300 cm / 7'1"x9'10"
Approx. total height
12 - 50 mm / 0.47" - 1.97"
