Craft Work: Six Mills, One Language

Craft Work: Six Mills, One Language

Luum Textiles has launched Craft Work, a six-pattern collection from Creative Director Dorothy Cosonas that treats handwork and machine production as collaborators, not rivals.

The premise is simple. Take the texture of a hand technique. Translate it for the mill floor. Keep the soul intact.

Six products. Three upholsteries, a multipurpose, a woven wallcovering, and a drapery. Each draws from art and fashion without quoting either too literally.

Dori is the showpiece. Sections embroidered separately onto a recycled polyester and linen base, then packed tight with stitch on stitch. The references run deep, from Josef Albers’ color studies to Anni Albers’ weavings. Seven colorways, from quiet neutrals to brights. A rich, layered surface built for contract wear.

Gigi reads like couture tweed that learned to take abuse. Boucle and circular-knitted yarns in warp and weft, eight tones, structural integrity where it counts. Roam scatters high-twist tri-color boucle across ten colorways, each tone seeming to hover above the ground.

Then there’s Calm, which earns its name. A wide-width digitally printed ombré drapery in Trevira CS, shifting through five colors in one uninterrupted wash. Hang it as a soft backdrop or let it carry the room. Either way, it wants a tall window and a long sightline.

Haze is the quiet workhorse. A chenille-flecked basket weave in sixteen colorways, bleach-cleanable, ready for walls, panels, or seating.

Etch handles the wall. A bleach-cleanable woven covering with a micro-chenille cross-hatch, it seams cleanly for a continuous architectural surface.

Specialty mills, considered detail, and a real commitment to sustainable construction. Craft Work is performance fabric with a point of view.

Images Courtesy of Luum Textile

Main Image is Roam

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