TEXTURA | handknit in Uruguay

El Origen in Elle!

cdesvaux — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:26:09 +0000

“Sweater Weather” feature on Potter & Butler

cdesvaux — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:54:41 +0000

After seeing us in Vogue Knitting, we got word on our Etsy Page that the folks at Potter & Butler did a lovely feature on our sweaters. We love their story (“We are creative makers of handmade goods for merry celebrations, and this is our diary.”) and are happy to be on their radar.

Good Magazine!

cdesvaux — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:48:18 +0000

Good Magazine did a feature on Textura’s newest line, El Origen Wool. Read it here.

An excerpt: Odds are, that sweater you’re wearing is colored; just as likely, it comes from wool that wasn’t. That’s because, in a counter-intuitive (not to say control freak-ish) move, the garment industry prefers its wool come clean—the simpler to then dye it back. “Machines that make bales of wool get ‘polluted’ with wool that is not white, [and] different colors need to be classified,” says Christina DesVaux of El Origen Wool. The result is that a lot of perfectly good wool gets tossed.

Silence is golden

cdesvaux — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:30:55 +0000

This piece speaks to knitted interfaces–that is, where the handmade meets technology. We think it’s fantastical.

Brown Alumni Magazine

cdesvaux — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:49:03 +0000

Textura’s most recent line, El Origen Wool, is featured in Brown Alumni Magazine’s Annual Gift Guide. We are so excited to have been selected! COMING SOON: buy your wool in our shop!

(From the magazine) 2, 3 winter’s coming! Christina Des Vaux’06 imports merino wool from Uruguay and sells knitwear made by local knitters. This shawl is the warmest, most luxurious thing we can imagine.Wool $13/100g spool; shawl $120. http://texturastore.com/ (206) 261-8084.

Oved, designer.

cdesvaux — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:29:24 +0000

It’s been awhile since we have featured one of our beloved knits worn by a beloved customer. Here is Oved, an industrial designer, rocking a one-of-a-kind woven scarf from Chamal.

Chamal was started with a micro-grant from the European Union, and headed by two weavers, Selva and Ana, who love to talk soccer, politics, and the latest in natural dyes. Oved is an Industrial Designer for Ziba, a design and innovation consultancy based in Portland, OR. He works with projects as cool as designing boomboxes and turntables. He rocks wool, well.

Speaking of Portland, we are headed there in July to shoot the new line from El Origen, which we are so excited to show you!

Cleared. Back in the States.

cdesvaux — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:58:49 +0000

I remember receiving our first shipment of knits with the sticker “Cleared” on the box, and thinking “Textura, we are cleared for take-off.” We are once again thinking about clearance and takeoffs; getting in new knits and starting new partnerships. We have a new line to shoot and new yarns to sell, and we’re always thinking of how to bring to you, what we love best: the best of Uruguayan knitwear.

Loving: Invierno Celeste!

cdesvaux — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:40:14 +0000

In celebration of Uruguay coming in first of their World Cup group, knitwear cooperative Manos del Uruguay is celebrating with a window display that we love. Celeste–or sky blue–is the color of Uruguay’s Jersey, and the reason we were up at 7am wishing them well as they played against Mexico. To know Uruguay is know that they love their wool, their maté, their meat, and their soccer. Today’s victory excited the nation.

Check out the blog of Manos for design updates, window displays, and other noticias related to Uruguay’s largest knitting cooperative. Read it here.

Leading by example

cdesvaux — Mon, 31 May 2010 13:54:51 +0000

We are loving all this “wool-positive” news that we are reading.

1) The Wool Carbon Alliance applauds those world leaders serious about mitigating climate change, particularly those who led by example by wearing wool to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP15. “Wearing wool, walking on wool and sleeping with wool are all ways of using this great renewable fibre in our everyday lives and in doing so think globally and act locally,” Wool Carbon Alliance chairman Chick Olsson said. Read more here: http://www.woolnews.net/news_item.php?ID=1925

2) In January 2010 The Prince of Wales launched The Wool Project. According to experts, the Prince has done more, in a few short months, to put wool in the public domain than has been achieved by wool industry bodies spending millions of dollars in recent years. We like! http://www.woolnews.net/news_item.php?ID=2028

New Look for Texturastore.com!

cdesvaux — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:39:04 +0000

: Screenshot from the new Press Page

: Screenshot from the new Collections Page