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 in which Aline de Laforcade has explored the aesthetic and execution possibilities of jute and wool within a single piece. These are two fibers often present in her work, each with a very different character. Its design echoes the tactile legacy of these two materials, so widely used throughout history in the Mediterranean, but avoiding a mere reproduction of the past; instead, it gives continuity to ancestral languages and how they transform over time. New Origins therefore explores the continuity between ancestral knowledge and contemporary design.
The combination of both materials creates a constant dialogue between the structure of its design and the softness of its texture. While the jute provides an earthy and comforting character -which appears uniform from a distance but reveals subtle tonal variations that add warmth and depth up close- the wool introduces softness to the touch and an enveloping texture.
The secret of its execution lies in artisanal weaving at different levels, generating reliefs and three-dimensional volumes by varying the pile height of the wool, which is hand-knotted over the flat jute base. In this way, the surfaces of the New Origins rugs behave like small landscapes, where the materials themselves shape their visual language.
This rectangular model in white tones from the New Origins collection measures 216 x 300 cm. It is also available in brown tones 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"
