Lasso O Ie Teuteu Ie by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Lasso O Ie Teuteu Ie by Cristina Orozco Cuevas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 A' Design Award Apamemea in Mamanu Ie Competition Category.

ApamemeaIe· 2014

Lasso O Ie Teuteu Ie

by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Client: Cristina Orozco Cuevas Studio

A' Design Award Apamemea Winner in Ie Category

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The Design

About Lasso O Ie Teuteu Ie

Lasso o se faʻauiga o se maea umi ma se taʻavale solofanua i le tasi pito. Ae le ole musuia ile; o lenei ie lasi o se taunuuga o. O loʻo i ai faʻapitoa faʻapitoa ma aulelei e ese mai ni faʻaaliga faʻapitoa faʻapitoa ina ia mafai ona pasi lemu le malamalama i. E 'afa o fale gaosi - afa gaosia, lalagaina i totonu faʻaeletonika toatu ma tipi i le lima. O lenei poloketi e matua aulelei ma faʻaosofia le avea ma lole ma sa avea ma tasi o luʻitau sili ma iloa i luga o laʻu galuega o se fai lavalava. O lenei poloketi e faatatau i le serendipia, e tautevateva, o avanoa, mauaina, malosi ma le faʻalavelave.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Apamemea

O le A' Design Award Apamemea na manumalo ai Lasso O Ie Teuteu Ie, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu ese e iloga i le fatufatuaʻi, le atamai ma le poto. O ē manumalo i le Apamemea o mea e iai le tomai atoa ma fatufatuaʻi mataʻina e faamaonia ai le poto masani tele, le mafaufau ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Lasso O Ie Teuteu Ie e avea ma mea e vivii tele, ua pelepelea, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Apamemea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili i le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi ma e sili ona lelei i le mataituina o mea itiiti. Lasso O Ie Teuteu Ie e faamalieina matagofie manaʻoga, pa i manaʻo, faalataina lagona ma faaosofia le fia iloa.

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