history
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Handmade and marketing
Sometimes, a piece of news goes beyond the field of consumption and forces us to reflect on memory, culture, and labor. That was what happened when I read the reports about the Adidas collection produced with artisans from Naupan, Mexico. The campaign presented the pieces as the result of valuing traditional techniques and Indigenous manual…
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Horus’s Incompleteness
Have you ever stopped to think that even the most ancient symbols carry a philosophy of incompleteness? The Eye of Horus, one of the best-known symbols of Ancient Egypt, holds a detail that often goes unnoticed. And it was precisely this detail that transformed the way I think about the idea of being “whole.” Egyptian…
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Embroidery: the oldest in the world
The history of embroidery is older than any written memory. Among the stitches still used today, cross-stitch is often pointed out as one of the oldest techniques. But even before fabrics existed, early humans were already joining hides and leathers with natural fiber threads. Needles were made of bone, some up to 30,000 years old,…