The Eskayel
Collection
For Elte
From watercolour to weaving
In a collaborative process, Elte worked with the Brooklyn-based textile design studio, Eskayel, to translate founder and artist Shanan Campanero’s organic forms and natural colour palette from watercolour to weaving.
The Eskayel Collection for Elte brings together the creative vision of this contemporary artist and designer with centuries-old weaving traditions and craft.
Eskayel founder and artist Shanan Campanero at work in her Brooklyn-based studio.
Inside Eskayel’s Brooklyn-based studio
A moodboard in the Eskayel studio
Shanan in the Eskayel studio with Jamie Metrick of Elte
Made by Hand in Jaipur
Knowing craft and technique would be integral to faithfully translating Shanan’s flowing, organic forms from watercolours into weaving, Elte selected a master artisan in Jaipur whose old world weaving technique would complement Eskayel’s modern designs.
Master artisans dye the yarn for the rugs by hand in Jaipur.
The collection is made possible by highly skilled weavers and experts in yarn dyeing techniques. The rugs are hand-dyed, hand-knotted and hand-cut to accomplish Eskayel’s signature aesthetic that involves shadowing and intricate blending of colour.
Master artisans use hundreds of thousands of hand tied knots in each rug.
THE RUGS
The close collaboration between artisan and designer that made this possible took place over several years, between Brooklyn, Jaipur, and Toronto.
The Eskayel Collection is available exclusively through Elte.
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