Lasso ʻo Ka Lole Kūloko by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Lasso ʻo Ka Lole Kūloko by Cristina Orozco Cuevas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Kapa, Lole, ʻAno Ili, Hoʻolālā Pena a me Lole Competition Category.

KeleaweKapa· 2014

Lasso ʻo Ka Lole Kūloko

by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Client: Cristina Orozco Cuevas Studio

A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in Kapa Category

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The Design

About Lasso ʻo Ka Lole Kūloko

ʻO Lasso kahi wehewehe ʻana he kaula lōʻihi me ka noose lele e holo ana ma kekahi kihi. Ma kahi o ka paipai ʻia; 0 kēia kile he hopena. Loaʻa iā ia kahi pā a me nā aesthetic kūikawā ʻē aʻe i kekahi o nā kahui frayed kūikawā i hiki ke hele i ka mālamalama. He hapalua ia o ka hana o ka honua - hapalua i kālai ʻia, i ulana ʻia i nā loilo uila a ʻokiʻoki i ka lima. He hoihoi maikaʻi loa kēia pāhana a he addictive e like me ke kanaka lole a ua lilo ia o kekahi o nā mea poʻokela i loa a ʻike ʻia i kaʻu ʻoihana e like me ka mea hana hoʻolālā hana. ʻO kēia pāhana e pili ana i ka serendipia, pili ʻana, loaʻa, ʻike ākea a me ka ulia.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Lasso ʻo Ka Lole Kūloko i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Lasso ʻo Ka Lole Kūloko he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā Lasso ʻo Ka Lole Kūloko i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: half industrial - half crafted, designed with textile CAD software, woven in jacquard electronic looms and cut by hand. It is woven industrially, but cut by hand which gives job to machines and external people. It forms vertical channels as a kind of fray where the light can pass through very sofltly. The frays are crafted processes and lasts months. A fabric with this kind of processes in the industry mills is nearly impossible but not that much.
Dimensions & Packaging: Widths available: 1.40 m and 2.80 m. Rapport repeat: 35 cm width x 25 cm height. Uses: lamps, pillows, bedscarfs and decorative curtains. As a finish ironing the loose fur brings more volume and the frayed channels are more obvious. It is of massive production and the loose yarns are strongly moored with a tafeta special weave union.
Tags: Jacquard, textile, decoration, fabric, lasso, half indusrtrial, half handmade, fur
Production Technology: All polyester dyed yarns woven in Jacquard electronic looms. The floated yarns are cut manually by a special tool we call knife shutter. The weave technique is very old (double fabric). However the important aspect is how I applied the weaves interlaced in order to be viable to be produced and not just as a prototype as good productivity performance. The special tool developed reminded textile engineers old techniques to make corduroy.
Design Challenge: At the beginning the aim was to develop a fabric with square bags. It would have little bags to put inside tools or jewelry. After weaving and testing different techiques, this came up as a serendipity all of it. There were more than 10 previews designs to get to the final lasso fabric. The weaves interaction result was floats in warp and weft. To cut the yarns in vertical and horizontal, we developed a special tool that works as a long shuttle knife to have a better and faster production. It was an enormous challenge to have it accomplished as a product and to convince the mill that it would work.
Research: The research was completely experimental. Textile engineers were afraid that using this technique on industrial looms could not work, specially the machines weaving. The process of cutting the loose yarns was hard in order to bring a product that because of the hand crafted process would not be so expensive that would not work with the market prices. Besides the lead time to deliver a roll of this product within 3 weeks at least. Since warping process till the client's door. The cut part can be done by external workers so other people get a job.
Inspiration: I named it lasso as a long rope with a running noose at one end. This project can be described as: experimentation. This fabric started with the research of something very different from the result. More than inspiration this project is about having luck, stumbling upon, chance discovery, fortuity and accident. It is a piece of hard work, research, mulish and not withdraw.
Project Duration: The project started in March, 2012 and ended in September, 2012.
Operation Flow: It has a special appearance as it seems as an extra application or embroidery upon the fabric but in fact it is woven like that. People always want to touch first than see the furry yarns. If there is light behind the soft feeling is quite special and light passes through the frayed parts. This kind of textile can replace goose feathers.
Team Members: Cristina Orozco Cuevas