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vilnius / lithuania
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( BETWEEN ) - the collaboration of traditional crafts and novel design to create the new conceptual stories. These stories refer to traditional Baltic roots of ours and a fresh view of today’s design field. They meet somewhere Between.
Our new collection S/s 2020 tells about our searching for identity, remembering our roots, creating new design with a respect for the traditional crafts of our country.
Lithuania used to be very popular with traditional crafts, such as - wood craft, weaving, shoemaking. The traditional costume was a part of daily life, every kind of celebrations, history.
In our new collection we create a nowadays traditional costume , which combine some of the most popular traditional crafts of Lithuania a new ways.
OUr beautiful weaver Veronika is 85 years old now. She , her sister and her mother spend all of their lifes weaving the stripes for different kind of celebrations. Now she is very happy to collaborate with us and take part in the design society of 21 century.
Nature was always worshiped in Baltics. It was in our blood even before Christianity. Therefore animalistic decorations are to be found in all the objects from our traditional past. We took one of them. It's a snake - žaltys. It's believed to be a good sign to see it. It brings luck and happiness to your home. It is seen as a good spirit.
To find this kind of decoration in the creations of the past is very easy - the one we used comes from folklore, from the fireplace tile.