Sand Script from Designer Rugs

Caroline Baum worked with Senior Designer of Designer Rugs, Lia Pielli to create the 'Sand Script' range. Together they created a digital colour map to interpret the photographs (taken by Caroline) on the South Coast of New South Wales which eventually were made into rugs.

Exploring local rock-shelf platforms, Caroline began photographing a colony of sea snails making patterns in the sand as they foraged for food, "they were washed away at high tide but regularly redrawn, like a mysterious ancient calligraphy renewed with constant variation
depending on interactions with algae, seasonal changes and weather."

Originally, these photographs were exhibited before being translated on to a range of silk chiffon scarves and then eventually re-interpreted and woven into rugs. Swatches were selected using 100% NZ wool and the more detailed images were made using silk detailing to
emphasise light rippling over sand and to provide a variation in texture and lustre. These were then hand knotted in Nepal and woven into the 'Sand Script' rug series.

'Sand Script' includes 'Red Ripple' – hand knotted in Tibetan wool and silk, 'Orange Tessellation' – hand knotted in Tibetan wool and 'Black Map' – hand knotted in Tibetan wool and silk.

All three rugs can be custom-sized.

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