Taiana - The Seed Study - Catalog

T H E S E E D S TU DY “C O N CE P TI O N”

CATALO G MAY 2019

S eed N o. 1 2 0 HER 56” x 98” Ecru White Merino Water, air. fresh, visible invisible. $8000

S eed N o. 302 LO O K AT TH E BAB Y 16” x 45” 100% Merino Wool Baby Pink, Salt + Peper, White A newborn, soft old soul and the subtle signs of new growth $800

Seed No.004 B ABY CAM EL “15 x 38” 100% Merino Wool Camel Colored Mini Camel, mama Camel was lonely.

S eed N o .40 4 CAM E L

$400

41” x 45” 100% Merino Wool Camel Colored Deep Sahara, hallucination, seeing a camel colored tree. Robust, texture, density. $7500

S eed N o. 0 3 3 MR KVA 100% Merino Wool Camel Colored Bi-ped carrot loving creature. $3,000 NFS

Seed No.030 A LO NG DRI NK OF DU S K 14” x 117” Cafe Au Lait Merino Wool and Icelandic Wool top Self Portrait. $4200

S eed N o. 0 4 0 WO O D N Y MP H 33” x 80” Merino Wool White Ecru, Dusty Pink Browns, Mauves, Eucalyptus Branch A transparent division. $2400

S eed N o .00 2 MINI W E 16” x 73” Ecru White Merino Wool and Locks Creature of the day, baby to Weho, clean, playfull, stands alone, demands a little. $1800

S eed N o. 0 6 4 MAUV E MAMA 45” x 77” 100% Merino Wool Mauve + Pinks Shades and remnants of a sweet pink story.

$10400

Seed No.063 M I NI M AU VE 42” x 15” 100% Merino Wool, Mauve, Dusty Pink Mauve Mama had a baby with Ever Ever Land. $800

S eed N o. 0 3 6 TH AT P UR P LE MO ME N T 81” x 52” 100% Merino Wool, Purple, Natural Browns First light/last light. $7500

S eed N o. 0 6 2 PASS ME TH E N E UTR ALS 66” x 32” Un-dyed Grey and Brown Wools, Pink Merino Over neutralized, need more color. $5500

Seed N o . 06 4 D W EL L ER 19” x 53” 100% Merino and Brown Wool, Pink and Petrol Deep rooted flare, deeply Vibrant.

Brown keeping it on earth.

S e ed No.700

$800

AMSTERDAM S TER 14” x 47” 100% Merino Wool Pale Grey, Rust, Pink Oddities, Merging of the unusual and unexpected. $1000

S eed N o. 4 0 2 C AV E D WE LLE R 25” x 20” 100% Merino Wool Deep rooted flare, deeply Vibrant.

Brown keeping it on earth. $900

S eed N o. 8 0 8 MATTE R A 69” x 57” 100% Black Merino Wool Subtlety, searching for meaning, nothing to prove. $7800

S eed N o. 8 0 9 MATTE R B 62” x 60” 100% Ecru White and Black Merino Wool Moon moss. $7800

Seed No.101 YOU R FU TU RE HAS N’T B EEN W RI TTEN YET 74” x 78” Brown and White Un-dyed Wool Inspired by the home it was made it for. Cohesive, one with its space, tonal but bold. Soft.

S ee d No .00 2 SHE USE D TO B E A N EG G P L A N T 75” x 27” 100% White Ecru Merino Wool Clean, texture, approachable, subtle.

The desire to touch. $6000

$11000 NFS

Seed No.004 COM E TO M Y S HOW 136” x 116” 100% Merino Wool White Ecru + Celery The takeover of green reeds and moss on an a white sand beach. $22000

S eed N o. 0 4 5 O AXAC A 28” x 117” Merino Wool White Ecru + Mixed Locks Cascading, organized choas. Heavy water flowing through rock probabilities. $9500

Seed No.006 W EHO 26” x 167” Ecru Merino Wool and Locks Tall drink of water. Modern eclectic. Inspired by the space it was made for. $4600 NFS

S ee d No .30 2 CAL I B R ATE D 74” x 40” Herdwick, Swaldedale, Mashan, Shetland, Norwegian and Merino Wool top.

Driftwood, seaweed, sand, air.

S eed N o. 0 4 6 $6500

N E UTR ALIZE D 62” x 80” Taupe and White Ecru White Merino Wool Where the water meets the sand and air. $4800

S eed N o. 0 4 4 GR E Y WO LF 64” x 72” Herdwick, Swaldedale, Mashan, Shetland, Norwegian and Merino Wool top Tone on tone, subtle gradients like the shades found a shale cliffside at dawn. $11000

Seed No.026 LAYO 40” x 15” 100% Merino Wool Horizon + Cafe au Lait Dust, wheat fields, early harvest. $800 NFS

S eed N o. 001 C O N C E P TION 110” x 43” 100% Merino Wool Mustard, Mid Grey, Mauve, Mulberry, Light Mullberry The Conception. First tapestry made, inspired by home.

The Giefer’s + the space it was made for, modern, earthen. diverse but grounding. Comfort. $11000 NFS

S eed N o. 3 0 3 E V E R E V E R LAN D 50” x 54” Silk Merino Weave, Horizon, Dusty Pink Unicorn dreams.

Deep ocean misty mornings. $6300

S eed N o. 1 0 0 SKATE 16” x 47” 100% Ecru White and Black Merino Wool Seafloor swimmer, deep ocean, no light, only sensations. $4800

S eed N o. 0 9 9 A GR E E N STO RY 16” x 20” 100% Ivy Merino Wool Plant invasion. Caper bush on a rock wall in Makarska $400

The Seed Study’s “Conception” is a series of wool tapestries hand-made by Taiana, celebrating the conclusion of her decades-long accessories line and the beginning of her exploration into interiors and art installation pieces.

T HE S H O W

This collection of wall hangings features hand + needle felted wool tapestries both small and large. The pieces are inspired by diverse flora and earth matter merging into unconventional friendships, the unpredictability of growth throughout the plant kingdom. The tapestries are intended to bring warmth and happenstance from the natural world into the home.

TA I A N A : I T S H I ST O RY Taiana’s mission is to create timeless, versatile pieces of art by bringing ancient felting techniques to the modern textiles world. Each piece is unique and 100% handmade by Taiana. She began experimenting with handmade fabrics in 2007 while visiting family in Germany. What started as simple artistic curiosity quickly grew into a passionate and inspired desire to create with and share the ancient felting process. Collaborating with Calvin Klein’s head designer Francisco Costa, she created a number of custom felted fabrics for CK’s 2009 fall RTW runway show. Since then she has worked on collections of scarves and blankets, selling to stores world wide. She have also collaborated with a number of other designers, including Helmut Lang, Maiyet and Rick Owen, creating fabrics to be used in their collections. After almost a decade of making textiles for the fashion industry, she longed to bring her craft into the eyes of the art world and home interiors realm.

Five years in the making, the collection features a diverse series of pieces that have taken 10-250 hours to create. The work if comprised of primarily fine Merino Wool fibers both raw and felted. The base of the tapestries are hand felted while the growths are comprised of raw wool and locks. Sumerian Legend claims that Urnamman, a Sumerian war hero of Lagesh, first discovered wet felting techniques. Following this traditional path to create the scarves and blankets as well as the bases for the tapestries, Taiana layers and sculpt Merino wool and other fibers together over a span of hours or days depending on the desired design’s intricacy. Once the intended weave is complete, she pours a mixture of boiling water and olive oil soap onto the fiber. Using a series of labor-intensive agitation techniques, she then apply pressure and create friction to naturally bind the fibers together. When repeated over and over this alchemical process causes the wool fibers, which are naturally kinked and full of scales, to lock together into a fabric known as felt.

Creating the growth like texture of the tapestries involves a combination of needle felting and raw wool sculpting, essentially a continuation of layering. Each “dreadlock” is rolled by hand then places and attached individually to the felted base with a felting needle The shading and dusting of colors found in many of the pieces are created by needle felting from the front and back side of the base, rearranging fiber placement, essentially shading with hair. Due to the organic process that the fiber undergoes during fabrication, no two of her creations will look exactly alike. Taiana sources her 19-21 micron wool from Ashland Oregon, Yorkshire, the Falkland Islands, and Australia, to name a few places. She only use wool from sheep that are treated humanely and raised naturally or organically.

Born in Los Angeles, Taiana moved to Santa Barbara when she was ten and, after a few stints in New York City and Washington, now lives and creates in Santa Barbara with her partner Leo and their dog Dyl’n also known as Baby G.

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