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PROJECTS
Mosaico familiare
2025
Material: Polyester Satin, Wood
2025
Material: Polyester Satin, Wood
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- Individual Project
- Textile design / Product design
- Skills: Weaving; Sewing; Screen printing; Laser cutting
The main outputs of my project are three woven textile panels, each representing a different kind of family structure, to showcase the different options:
- A long-distance family (based on my own)
- A chosen/found family (friends)
- A generational family (mother and daughter)
Each panel merges the facial features of its members through a weaving technique I developed, including paper weaving, textile weaving and manipulation. These are detachable panels which are designed to be both wearable (as jacket linings) and displayable (as wall hangings).
The work is framed by ideas from emotional design, family structures, material culture, and textile storytelling, and memory preservation. I explored how objects, such as textiles can carry emotional value such as intimacy, connection, protection, intergenerational, remembrance, identity and belonging. Whether worn privately inside the jacket or displayed in a shared space, it invites users to feel supported, protected and almost embraced by the people they are woven with.
It functions as a reminder to celebrate the people we love and remember that we are loved. It responds to how we express and preserve our relationships with others, especially when long distance or loss can be present.
Weaving, both as a technique and a concept, became central to the project since it symbolizes the way relationships are formed, layered, and interwoven over time. It invites us to think about how we remember and stay connected through relationships, and how design can help us preserve personal history and intimacy, even across distance, time, or difference.