Lacey Jijimaha Cuff by Diana Sokolic is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2015 Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award in Naqshadeynta Alaabta Fashaniga iyo Safarka Competition Category.

NaxaasAlaab Dheeraad· 2015

Lacey Jijimaha Cuff

by Diana Sokolic

Client: Diana Sokolic

Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award Winner in Alaab Dheeraad Category

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The Design

About Lacey Jijimaha Cuff

Dhammaanteen waxaan haynaa khaanado ay ka buuxaan shalash ay sameeyeen hooyooyin iyo ayeeyooyin. Doyley-yadaas ayaa loo isticmaalay sidii qurxinta miisaska kafeega, TV-ga, ama kuraasta gacmaha. Maalmahan, waxay leeyihiin qiimo shucuureed, laakiin faa'iido ma leh. Diana Sokolic waxay samaysay jijimo katiinado leh oo leh shalash u dhexeeya laba saxan oo ah Plexiglas hufan. Qaybo qurux badan oo jacayl iyo dulqaad lagu sameeyay ayaa ujeeddadoodii dib u helay isku xidhka wixii ina soo maray iyo wakhtigan xaadirka ah.

The Recognition

About the Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award

Lacey Jijimaha Cuff waa guuleystaha Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award, aqoonsi sharaf sare leh oo la siiyo naqshado aan caadi ahayn oo lagu garto hal-abuur, hal-abuur cusub iyo caqli. Guuleystayaasha Naxaasta waa shaqooyin xirfad buuxda leh iyo hal-abuur yaab leh oo xaqiijiya khibrad weyn, male-awaal iyo kartida naqshadeeyayaashooda. Lacey Jijimaha Cuff waa walax la filayo inay noqoto mid aad loo tixgeliyo, la ixtiraamo oo la jecel yahay, xirfad cad leh oo hal-abuur cusub leh. Naqshadahan ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award wuxuu ku darsadaa hab-dhaqanno ugu wanaagsan farshaxanka, sayniska, naqshadaynta iyo tignoolajiyada wuxuuna ku fiican yahay dhawrista tafaasiisha. Lacey Jijimaha Cuff si fiican ayay u buuxisaa baahiyaha, taabataa rabitaannada, soo jiidataa dareenka kicinayaanna xiisaha aqoonta.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Our great grandmothers and grandmothers were brought up to play piano, read poetry and make lace. In the 60ies, their daughters kept those lace doyleys under the glass on coffee tables and commodes. Now we have drawers full of lace and needlework. It has no use in modernly furnished flats, it hass just an emotional value.
I have made cuff bracelets with lace between two plates of transparent Plexiglas.
In this way the lace has kept its transparency, gained new use, at the same time recognizing the women who made it and those who kept it for us.
Dimensions & Packaging: 130 x 75 x 50 mm
Tags: lace,cuff bracelet, accessorie, fashion
Production Technology: Lace and PMMA
I did not want to put delicate lace in a metal frame or any other heavy material. So I decided to put it between two pieces of transparent Plexiglas.
Design Challenge: Since PMMA has to be heated in order to be bent, the most challenging part was how to heat it without burning the delicate threads of needlework and then how to connect the lace and the Plexiglas without the glue.
Research: This project was technically the most diffucult one for me. I was affraid that I will burn the lace while experimenting with different temperatures in order to bent the PMMA, since I could not experiment with something else except the lace itself.
PMMA plates have to be really hot in order to stick to one another, while the lace is between the layers.
I had to find lace doyleys which are not to big because cuffs have to be weareable.
Inspiration: From time to time I open the drawer with lace and needlework kept between sheets of thin white paper. I look at them with love and patience, expecting to hear them talking to me. I know that those pieces want to be used again, that they want to show their beauty. And one day it just happened! They talked to me!
Project Duration: I have made these bracelets in my hometown Zagreb, Croatia
and the process lasted for several month.
This project has not been shown jet.
Operation Flow: Cuffs are open at the back so one size fits all
Team Members: Diana Sokolic
Image Credits: Diana Sokolic, 2014.