Inspired by and named after a bark cloth traditionally made in central Mexico - this fabric looks like a crumpled, muddy leather.
Nuno literally translated from the Japanese means 'functional textile'. Reiko Sudo, artistic director of the company, makes the ordinary extraordinary by creating a melting pot of borrowed technologies, traditional hand techniques and innovative finishing processes.
Fabrics are dissolved, burned, boiled, ripped, scrubbed - aggressive processes resulting in fine fabrics.
Image below: Nuno fabric 'Amate', rayon, polyester and paper.
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1. Bamboo Hexagonal Pattern, Rayon 45%, Silk 38%, Nylon 10%, Polyurethan 7%.
2. 100% Polyester.
3. Another Amate design: Base: Polyester 100% Ground: Rayon 100%
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Last edited by SomethingElse : 10-08-2007 at 07:38 PM.
Born in 1952, Tetsuo Fujimoto initially trained and practiced as a weaver for many years before eventually feeling a need to escape the restrictions of the vertical and horizontal warp and weft. Experimenting with freer forms of expression, he settled on a method that is closer to the act of drawing, though it involves the use of a sewing machine.
Indeed, Fujimoto now describes his work as ‘machine drawings’. Created through a painstaking process, their completion often takes several months. The cloth is first subdivided with stitches before the sewing machine is used to ‘draw’ upon it. Stitches upon stitches are densely layered to build up a zig-zag of stitches over cloth, firstly to cover the base cloth and then to develop an extraordinary surface which ultimately becomes three dimensional.
Below: Hemp cloth, silk thread, sheer backing (Pellon), natural plant dyes, zig zag sewing with a machine, dyeing.
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brilliant thread, gius.. I was actually expecting something like this from you for a long time, now.. good call.
I love the pics with the Hannah Hazell & Nicola Lagan textiles especially..
i love macrame...*sigh*...
part of my addiction to 70's chic...
i was rooting for liz collins when she first started her company...
but in the end...i think she was more of an artist than anything else...
nice that she found a gig teaching at her old school...
glad you guys like the thread.. i get a feeling some of the fabrics are too artsy to function too, softgrey. i'll try looking for some actually being used (though nigel atkinson on the 1st page uses his relief fabrics for chair covers and that)
thanks so much SomethingElse for adding the descriptions of the fabrics by Nuno.. Love hearing how they made them I think that is the most interesting part. They have sometimes very unusual processes
Here is some more of their work...
Featured at the NUNO: Japanese Tradition/Innovation in Cloth exhibition in Baltimore, MD
My guess is the one on the right is dyed with rust..iron.. you can clamp it onto fabric and soak it and after some time the rust will make an imprint on the fabric--I remember seeing it one of their books
This polyamide textile has been printed with polyester fluorescent flakes. A very textured fabric is created. The textile is intended for interior application.
from same book as 1st page
Looks like the same material here Dries van Noten f.w 07
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brilliant thread, gius.. I was actually expecting something like this from you for a long time, now.. good call. 
.. i get a feeling some of the fabrics are too artsy to function too, softgrey. i'll try looking for some actually being used (though nigel atkinson on the 1st page uses his relief fabrics for chair covers and that)
I think that is the most interesting part. They have sometimes very unusual processes
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