Client: Nodus Rug

Year: 2011

Nodus operates by selecting the best rug-making craftsmen all over the world, visiting them one by one and verifying materials, techniques and working conditions to guarantee ethical production. Internationally renowned designers are invited to give their personal interpretation of the oldest traditions and techniques in carpet making. 

From the wide variety of techniques, Studio Formafantasma has chosen to work with needlepoint, one of the last techniques still produced in Europe.

Each of the three rugs from the migration collection have been produced entirely by hand in Portugal with an average embroidery time of a month per carpet.

About the collection

18h century Rococo decors of romantic roses and perfectly symmetrical leaves, exist today through traditional needlepoint techniques, forcing nature into mans image.

As a reaction to this idealized representation of nature, Studio Formafantasma designed a collection of three rugs inspired by the work of 19th century ornithologist Jan James Audubon, famous for his scientific categorization of birds.