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Designers > Apparel/Accessories > Saule Bapanova Textiles
 Saule Bapanova and her husband Alibay, leading artists in their home country, have worked together creating intricate hand-woven and hand-felted tapestries, masterfully blending centuries-old weaving skills and Central Asian cultural icons with modern artistic expression. Always seeking new artistic challenges, Saule Bapanova experimented with translating her weaving, felting and color composition to apparel. With the help of her daughter Aya, who studies fashion design at Almaty University, she developed the first concepts of using felted wool to craft shawls.
Not satisfied with the feel of Kazakh or Kirghiz wool she and her husband use for the wall art, she searched for a finer material. It was pure Australian merino wool that finally gave her the quality she was looking for. Felting onto a base of hand-woven raw silk from Uzbekistan, in ever surprising and amazing color combinations, Saule transforms the lose wool fibers into a textile poem. The contrast between opaque and transparent, pattern and solid, ancient craft and progressive style make each shawl a precious, distinctive piece of wearable art
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