Our weaving draws from the tradition of the lamba landy and the long textile culture of the Highlands. On our looms, a sacred inheritance meets unexpected material.
The lamba landy is the wild silk cloth of the Highlands of Madagascar. From cocoon to finished fabric, the weavers of the hills around Ambohimanga have practised this craft for centuries, producing cloth whose value lies as much in its history as in its making.
Wild silk became sacred cloth. It has accompanied Malagasy people through their most important ceremonies and into death itself. We inherited that tradition. We are renewing it.
We do not set out to preserve the past. We draw on the depth of Malagasy craft heritage and on its singular relationship with material, to create new textiles.
We introduce unexpected motifs and materials to our weavers' practice: rare leathers, raffia and banana fibre, wood, beads, unravelled cotton. The resulting fabrics range from the roughest to the most delicate. They cover upholstery and screens, or take shape as textile objects: lampshades, cushions, bed throws.
We weave wild silk, raffia and fine materials
on traditional looms into contemporary cloth,
from the rawest to the most refined.
Traditional wild silk of the Highlands. Matte, moiré, smooth or textured; plain or multicoloured.
Raw wild silk. Thick, fleecy, earthy.
Hand-woven on traditional looms, combining wild silk, rabane and natural materials, animal and plant, into fabrics that have no precedent.
Raffia-based weaving, enriched with other textile materials for a denser, more elaborate finish.