Entrelac

Commissioned by the Patrons of Amman Design Week

Entrelac, 2016 commission by Amman Design Week and created in collaboration with Nader Tehrani.

All yarn from source to spinning by Essa Farrah and his team.

Credit list: Designer: Nick Safely Production Coordinator: Abeer Seikaly Fabrication: Hamdeh Mustafa Hiba Sityan Iman Hasan Jamila Bani Ata Majida Yasin May Hasan Maysoon Al Khateeb Muna Al Aqtash Naheel Shehadeh Nawal Hasan Noha Al Aqtash Oroub Nakhleh Rae’da Yasin Rima Ali Sabah Ali Samar Nakhleh Susan Salman Zahiya Asad Onsite

Assistants: Farah Bitar, Heba Hiary, Izz Anabtawi, Mais Al Azab, Mira Suradi, Mohammad Ata, Nora Alrawi, Saad, Sham Kassisieh

First 2 photographs by Roland Halbe

In collabration with NADAAA

2016

Raw wool, sand bags

Approx. 8 x 10 x 13 m

Teetering the fine line between craft and art, the home space and the insdustiral space, Entrelac, stands in rough soft material as a challenger to the unspoken bounds of today’s social constructs. Entrelac’s woven knit strands emulate the most intricate details found in the traditional cross stitch technique. This work extracts the craft hidden in the home space and places itself amidst an industrial space at architectural scale.