Tell us more about what the rugs are made from, where they were woven, and how you connected with the weavers?
GT: We already work with the team of weavers who created this collection. We have a factory in Nepal and another in India – this time we used the one in India. All the rugs are made out of wool from New Zealand, which is the only material that's used in them.
What are your favourite design details from the collection?
GT: I like the orange and green chequered rug because it’s made up of three artworks, and it's got an odd shape at the bottom. Its high-low pile detailing is where the holes were punched into the artwork's paper.
BS: I like the rug that has circles going all the way around it; it also has a little collage in the middle with alternating pile heights to, again, reflect the hole punches in the original artworks. I think more shapely rugs work really nicely within a space, as they go against the grain of having a typical square or rectangle
There were a lot of dots in the whole collection – you can get a sense for how the kids and parents were learning from each other, and riffing off what others were designing. Although Halina was leading the workshop, there was also a really nice element of the kids and parents teaching each other things.