The colour in these placemats is not applied after weaving. It is dyed into the sedge before the mat is made - the threads tied and dyed in sections so that when the weaving begins, the pattern is already waiting inside the material. What emerges is that particular blurred, flame-edged gradient that is the signature of the ikat tradition: a colour that appears to move across the surface, deepening and lightening as the weave catches the light. The sedge itself is grown on THORRs' own cultivated lands in Amnat Charoen Province, in the northeast of Thailand - a region where this craft has been practised for generations, on traditional looms, by women who have spent their lives at them. THORRs works with those weavers to bring the kok mat, the traditional Thai sedge mat, into a contemporary context. The technique is unchanged. The ambition for it is new. Available in navy gradient. Each mat varies slightly. That is the nature of the material and the method. Hand-woven in Amnat Charoen Province, Thailand. Exclusive to Australia through The Leopard.
