MEXICAN FIBERS & CRAFTS
Oaxaca, Mexico
2020
Aurelie Hoegy travels around the world to select sustainable and hight quality natural fibers and to learn ancestral culture.
Working along skillful craftsmen, give the artist and designer a most advantageous position, to not only explore the roots and origin of the craft, but also to assimilate the techniques in real time, deepening her sensory of knowledge and diving into experimenting with matters. Her collections breathe new life into the fibers and soulful contemporary vision to this craft heritage, aiming to keep those traditions alive, valuing and honoring them by creating new ones.
Ongoing project
Fibers & craft researches
Natural dyes colors researches
Aurelie Hoegy travels around Mexico and Oaxaca state in 2020. Over a three-month stay, she researches and made high quality selection of natural fibers of bejuco liana, palm, textile coconut, Mexican silk from the Mayan pineapple plant.
Hoegy works in Puerto Escondido and Oaxaca coast in close collaboration with local specialists and skilful Mexican craftsmen.
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Aurelie Hoegy travels around the world to select sustainable and hight quality natural fibers and to learn ancestral culture.
Working along skillful craftsmen, give the artist and designer a most advantageous position, to not only explore the roots and origin of the craft, but also to assimilate the techniques in real time, deepening her sensory of knowledge and diving into experimenting with matters. Her collections breathe new life into the fibers and soulful contemporary vision to this craft heritage, aiming to keep those traditions alive, valuing and honoring them by creating new ones. - ABOUT
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Ongoing project
Fibers & craft researches
Natural dyes colors researches
Aurelie Hoegy travels around Mexico and Oaxaca state in 2020. Over a three-month stay, she researches and made high quality selection of natural fibers of bejuco liana, palm, textile coconut, Mexican silk from the Mayan pineapple plant.
Hoegy works in Puerto Escondido and Oaxaca coast in close collaboration with local specialists and skilful Mexican craftsmen.