Studio Charlie's Punto Pecora family of fabrics will be on display in Milan this week. An intriguing mix of old and new, the pixelated design was inspired by and abstracted from a late 19th century logo and the fabric is produced on a traditional Jacquard loom, it too dating back to the turn of the century. The original 19th century logo and the loom that makes the fabric, blanket and plaid above belong to Lanificio Leo.

Lanificio Leo's original logo on the left and the Punto Pecora design derived from it on the right.

From Studio Charlie:

The Punto Pecora fabric is abstracted from the logo for the Lanificio Leo woolmill: the image of a lamb. The drawing is pushed to the limits of figurative representation and becomes the basic element of a pattern. By developing the usual symmetrical fields of Jacquard technology, it re-elaborates the traditional weaving "fishbone" theme. The stitch is scaled variously (S,M,L), functioning as a minimal unit for fabrics from the same family. Lanificio Leo is the oldest textile mill still active in Calabria. It was founded in 1873, and is one of the most interesting factory-museums in Italy. Machines from the late 19th century to the 1960's are used for production from making a stitch, to the thread and subsequently the cloth. The link between the threads and the weaving pattern is reinterpreted in a technological mode: a grid of pixels like a white sheet, which can be drawn on with the language of weaving. The project brings to life contemporary fabrics, in the colours and the patterns, via traditional technology.

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