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Letters from the loom.

An archive of notes from the workshop — on craft, on rooms, on the slow lives of objects. Published when there is something worth saying.

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Letter No. 42 · Field Notes · 06 min read

The monsoon makes a different red.

Why a vegetable-dyed wool from August looks nothing like the same recipe in February — and why we don't try to correct it. A note from the dye yard in Sanganer, two days after the first rains.

Filed by the studio · Sanganer · 14 days ago

SPRING · MMXXVIThe latest issues

The House · 06 min

A flat in Antwerp, sixty years on.

A rug woven for a young couple in 1962 returned to the studio last spring. Slightly faded. Otherwise — exactly itself.

Material · 05 min

Why we wash wool in the river.

Cold running water and the slope of the bank. A practice older than the studio. A practice we have not improved.

The Craft · 05 min

On the asymmetric knot.

Why a single irregular loop, repeated 168,000 times per square metre, looks more like silk than mathematics.

WINTER · MMXXVFrom the archive

41 Where the studio buys its pomegranate — and why. Field Notes · 04 min Read
40 A grammar for naming rugs in three languages. The House · 07 min Read
39 In conversation with Kengo Kuma. Collaborations · 12 min Read
38 The cartoon room — a tour. The Craft · 06 min Read
37 Why we no longer ship by air. The House · 03 min Read
36 A short history of the Persian medallion. The Craft · 09 min Read
35 The first frost — and the dye yard. Field Notes · 04 min Read
34 Letters from Mahmoodpur. Field Notes · 05 min Read

From the archive

A rug takes eleven months on a loom in Bhadohi, then sixty years on a floor in Antwerp. The slow part happens before you ever see it.

— letter no. 17 · spring MMXXV

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