Laure Kasiers is a textile designer based in Brussels. She has been working with linen and virgin wool for 16 years to create unique rugs with organic patterns.
The process that she developed is both mechanical and manual and includes the use of two trimming machines she bought from a factory that was closing.
This enables her to create her own wool and linen ribbons and to have control over the kind of threads she uses. Once the ribbons are out of her machines, she draws with the material and assembles it, like a composition on a large canvas. The designer works upside down: what is on top during the composition will become the back of the carpet. Once the design is finished, she coats the surface with latex and burlap to create the background, the support for the rug. This method allows her to make non-slip rugs that hold together.
Laure Kasiers studied textile design at La Cambre, in Brussels. She invented her own rug making technique as her final year project and has been refining and exploring the limits of her process ever since.
Laure Kasiers exhibits six impressive rugs on the wall and floor of the gallery. Her abstract patterns are composed by juxtaposing recycled wool and linen ribbons that she creates in her workshop in the centre of Brussels.
The series of rugs designed by Laure Kasiers for From the ground up displays patterns inspired by nature in a black, blue, green and ochre palette. These new works are made exclusively from collected yarns, recycled wool from France and/or English wool entirely processed in the United Kingdom. Laure Kasiers blended several threads together in her ribbons to create nuances and depth.
The designer developed her own technique to create mesmerising rugs : she uses wool and linen ribbons which she places on edge to compose shapes and patterns manually. Her works refer to landscapes, strata or fields but stay open to one’s interpretation.