designs feature alongside a range of carefully collected Mid-Century Modern furniture and objects) while we are examining the products of her current experimentation with a small table-top loom—lengths of colorful woven fabric pieces in a variety of stripes and zigzag patterns, all made from scraps of wool. When asked what these might turn into, Moore smiles and says she’s probably collaborating with a rug maker soon and that she thought it would be a good idea if she understood weaving from the inside out before actually starting to design a full-size rug. In fact, this hands-on approach to the design process is essential to how Moore creates all her work. It’s why making a paper cutout of South Africa’s ubiquitous Pincushion protea flower became a fabric called Pincushion (later, Large Pincushion and Tall Pincushion). And it’s why working on a group of ceramic objects at her ceramics class also, in time, became a fabric called Oddjects. Moore’s experience of traditional block-printing techniques in Jaipur, India, inspired a print called Weft, visual cues from architectural elements became repeat patterns called Aperture and Breeze, and Heath Ceramics tiles inspired fabrics that reflect on the visual workings of their shapes (Dimensional Ovals, Dimensional Triangles, and Dimensional Diamonds). It’s also why Moore repeatedly—on her blog and in person—references the importance of what she calls “Making Friday.” In spite (or rather, she would say, because) of the demands of running a small business, Moore almost invariably spends at least one day per week just making things, on her own, in her studio.
The Colour Pop display in the Skinny laMinx shop in Bree Street, Cape Town, showcases advice for customers about putting together their own pillow selections. The Saks Clarke two-seater is by Cape Town furniture maker Saks Corner (sakscorner.co.za) and is topped with Skinny laMinx cushions in (from left) Flower Fields with Lemon Piping in Penny Black, Colour Pop Pillow in Gold and Lemon, Large Pincushion with Graphite Piping in Graphite, Colour Pop Pillow in Graphite and Lemon, Colour Pop Oblong in Lemon and Gold and Pincushion in Charcoal (skinnylaminx.com). The drum lampshade is in Breeze in Concrete.
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