Studio Pratha

in a small sardinian village, some elderly women have kept an extremely rare weaving technique with standing loom, passed down through generations over the centuries. in 2016 they started cooperating with young female designers to give new life to their handicrafts: the result is an all-women team, where tradition meets innovation. if technique and instruments date back to prehistoric times, the creativity of the designers leads to all-new artworks, a triumph of modernism. born from the intuition and vision of graziella carta, strongly fascinated by this ancient textile art, studio pratha relies on the abilities of a team of craftswomen - who have been weaving exquisite and fine traditional rugs with the same unique and fully manual technique since the ’60s - and some eclectic designers, based in sardinia, milan, london. inspired by classical subjects, the designers modernise their shapes and colours, while the weavers translate their futurist reinterpretation into evocative tapestries