Woven in Praguekabinet

Woven is a joint project by Milan Pekař and Tereza Sluková, consisting of a series of ceramic furniture and objects that explore the dialogue between ceramics and textiles. The inspiration for this project comes from the first prehistoric vessels, which bear impressions of textiles and demonstrate that the skills of processing these materials were among the first complex crafts that humans mastered. While fragments of ceramic vessels from this period are a common part of museum collections, textiles have only survived in the form of impressions and traces on the surface of shards.

As part of this project, we use traditional textile production techniques such as knitting and weaving as construction methods for ceramic objects. We aim to challenge the rigid form with which ceramics are typically associated; our focus is not on surface decoration, but on finding an organic form language that reveals the shared characteristics of both materials, such as softness and pliability.