Vela

Linen processing was once inseparable from everyday life across Lithuania and much of Europe — communal labour, seasonal rhythm, collective knowledge, songs and rituals at every stage. Today, it has nearly disappeared, and so have the shared experiences that once gave the material its meaning. This project works with what remains: the waste. Linen textile offcuts are ground, pulped, and hand-formed into new surfaces without additional binders. The forms of the resulting objects — a bench and a floor basket — are drawn from the shapes flax assumes during processing: tied bundles, tall stooks, combed fibres. It does not attempt to reconstruct what has been lost. It makes objects that remember.