If you have ever traveled to Peru, Bolivia, Chile, or Argentina, you will have seen more than one woman from the Andes using these colorful blankets with a lot of tradition and history. This textile piece is called aguayo, a rectangular piece of colored wool. Women wear it to complement their clothing, to carry children or things. Design If you…
These traditional Peruvian textiles are called Frazadas, which means blankets or bed covers. But these Frazadas are thick handwoven, and heavy enough to be used as rugs. Frazadas are 100% sheep wool textiles woven by hand and hand-dyed in the rural villages of the Andes by Aymara women in Peru. They use old techniques inherited through generations; it takes weeks to…
As you well know, including textures in the decorative accessories of our interior spaces is very important, since they enrich them a lot. One of the richest and most beautiful textures in design and shape is the alpaca textile. The alpaca is a high Andes camelid and Peru stands out as the first producer of its fiber in the world,…
Trine Skoller brings her love for ethnic textiles from her profession as a fashion designer into the decoration of her house. She is the owner and creative director of Stella Nova.A fascinating selection of colors, materials and patterns create an eclectic home with furniture and decorative pieces ranging from Eames chairs, vintage furniture to Peruvian rugs. This house is a…
The idea of this blog is to collect the interiors that best represent the Scandinavian-Bohemian style, although there will always be one of them that stands out the most. Even so, it is their combination that attracts me the most. And if I have to decide I would say that I lean a bit more to the Bohemian style. That’s…