Punto Pecora

Produced and sold by Lanificio Leo.
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.

The Punto Pecora fabric is presented at the exhibition The New Italian Design. Il paesaggio mobile del nuovo design italiano,
Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, 20 Januray - 25 April 2007.
Shown at: NERO BIANCO MARILÚ, via Tortona 20, Milan;
THAT’S DESIGN Tortona area, Superstudio 13, via Forcella 13, and Bovisa area, via Durando 38/A, Milan, Designweek 2007.
Shown at Abitare il Tempo, Verona, 20-24 September 2007.

Punto Pecora