Kustaa Saksi wanted to explore different warps for this series of works. He worked on a coloured warp with 5 different colours, a transparent warp and a black and a white warp.
Kustaa Saksi has developed several projects at the Textiellab over the years, creating his graphical works of art. For his latest series, the Anius Myth Series, he wanted to push the capabilities of the loom to the very edge. He made works on different warps, and used special bindings and transparent layers showing loose colourful floating yarns underneath. Saksi used a Jacquard weave, which allowed him to exert a lot of control over the details, colour and material use.
Saksi was working and experimenting closely with the textile developers and yarn specialists from the TextielLab to find the best material combinations for this project. For this series he worked on three different warps, a coloured warp with 5 different colours, a transparent warp and a black and white warp, experimenting with different wefts and bindings to creating something extraordinary.
Saksi (1975) was born in Kouvola, Finland and graduated from the institute of Design at Lahti University of Applied Sciences in 2000. Two years later he founded his own studio.
His graphic and patterned designs, art direction, illustrations, textiles, art works and installations, which have been shown in Helsinki, New York and, in 2014, at the prestigious Salone del Mobile design fair in Milan, have variously been described as psychedelic, kaleidoscopic and fantastical. He has designed for Nike, Salvatore Ferragamo, Moooi and Marimekko. After living in Paris for a few years, he now lives and works in Amsterdam.
