Many of her macramé pieces, meanwhile, also hang from wood or hold handcrafted ceramic planters and even bowls of fruit. Updating her woven tapestries for today’s more minimalist crowds, the Fort Langley–based weaver hangs them from pieces of washed-up driftwood and incorporates dreamy hues like cotton-candy pink, indigo, and soft yellow. “People love to say that my stuff is a throwback to the ’70s,” says Vandam, “but I like to believe that they’re a more modern version.” Designer Ana Sousa's minimalist wall hangings are handcrafted using fine silk, which offers rooms a luxe feel. (Describing herself as “pretty crafty”, Vandam is also self-taught in this realm.)Īlthough weaving, and macramé in particular, were all the rage in the ’70s-when the handicrafts decorated wood-panelled walls, frocks, and even hippie bedspreads in shades of cream, sickly green, and orange-the popularity of Vandam’s and other textile artists’ DIY décor demonstrates that the trend is seeing a renewal. Indeed, that first batch of textural, one-off weavings soon led to hundreds more-now constructed from an array of natural fibres like cotton, merino wool, and jute-as well as a collection of plant hangers made using the art of macramé, a loose translation of the Arabic word for “fringe”, in which knotted cords or ropes produce a decorative item. “I think ever since then, I’ve been, like, ‘Huh, I’m onto something,’ ” Vandam tells the Straight by phone. A small café in Brooklyn bought all of them.
She successfully created a wall hanging of her own and, a month or so later, had fashioned enough of the woolly boho-chic tapestries-nine in total-to launch Saige and Skye at the encouragement of her family and friends. Having spotted a woven wall hanging on Pinterest in early 2015, the stay-at-home mom had picked up a kids’ weaving kit and taught herself the craft, which involves interlacing yarn on a loom to produce a piece of fabric or cloth. It does not store any personal data.Local fibre artist Jolynn Vandam’s Etsy shop, Saige and Skye, had been open for less than 30 days when she received an order that effectively cleared out her entire stock. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies.
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