I had to work with dried herbs to produce manifesto pieces on the fashion trend of animism and natural colors for men’s fashion. With this project I received a lot of interest and collaborated on an experimental project with the French car company Renault. Today I’m focused on the series WAKIMONKEY, which are mural hand woven pieces about 140cm by 320cm using an ancient Persian technique called Samit. Daks: You have quite a few different techniques that you use while weaving. Can you tell me a bit about those? Some seem quite traditional but others very artistic or stylized. CT: All weaving techniques continue to impress me and stimulate my interest. Every time I have a project, I try to find the best technique or combinations of techniques, as if that technique
Daks: You do commercial as well as art projects. How do you find your clients? CT: I started to work for an important fashion trend studio in Paris run by Li Edelkoort, where I met a lot of designers who were interested by my skills in hand-weaving. The fact that I was working in that studio was important to attract the attention of new clients. Later, I was selected to participate in Maison d’Exception at PremiereVision Paris. It’s the high creativity experimental zone. Daks: Do you have a favorite piece of work or project you have worked on? CT: An important work for my career was a collaboration with Nelson Sepulveda for the magazine BLOOM.
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