MAUDE NIBELUNGEN

I started knitting when I was five and always did since then. I never really thought about designing pieces for anybody but myself.. I painted, played piano, wrote. I actually could never really pick anything precise I really wanted to focus on.
I did what felt the most interesting and appropriate at the time and I decided to study History and Religion Anthropology. I guess I only ever tried to understand a nature that sometimes feels surreal and keeps me perpetually perplexed and questioning. Beauty, pain, love, violence... All those struggles constantly tearing me.

I walked, hiked for a while; I've always been restless.

Officially since 2010 I've been turning my demons into knitwear. I love the texture possibility range that knitting allows. Matter and anti-matter dancing on the skin.
Every garment is handmade and unique, although I follow a certain pattern I like every piece to have its own traits, unevenness and character. I don't think uniform and plastic looking is perfect. As in nature, things can only be so perfect because of the way they are: unique, full of details and soul.

The knit you are going wear is going to follow you in your evolution.

Writing knitting patterns also involves a lot of mathematics. Unlike fabric made items that are cut and put together, every part of the knit is made from zero to be the size and shape it needs to be. A lot of variations come into concern, the size/ aspect/ shape of the material(s) used, gauge of the instrument(s) you're going to knit with, the chosen stitch pattern(s) and how the combination of all these elements is going to turn. The development and thought process behind each creation is countless.
I always work on improving myself, the material I used, my techniques.

Each collection is a new part of my evolution, and it could also be part of yours.