Property News · March 12, 2016

Rope tricks: meet the queen of modern macramé


Macramé is hip again, thanks to the likes of Portland designer (and Instagram queen) Emily Katz. Candice Pires drops in on her 1970s-inspired Oregon home Emily Katz makes grown women giddy. On a Saturday afternoon in February, a group gathers in her studio for her macramé workshop. “I obsess over you on Instagram,” says a 24-year-old hotel receptionist. “I can’t believe I’m actually here!” Rain drizzles, Beach House plays on the stereo, a tiny dog circles the room, and eight women sit on high stools, clutching rope, awaiting instruction. Welcome to Portland, Oregon.Just over two years ago, Katz – a stylist and designer – was asked by a group of Japanese magazine editors where they could buy a macramé plant hanger that was suspended from a beam in her bathroom. She could have made one and sold it to them, but that’s not the Portland way. Instead, she taught them how to do it. Today, she travels the US – mostly Los Angeles, New York and Austin – and increasingly abroad, running macramé workshops: hundreds of people following her hands, making plant hangers, wall hangings, jewellery and clothes. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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