Basketry weaving with Maestro Carlos Fontales
A fascinating basketry weaving workshop using natural fibers with Carlos Fontales, one of the most important experts in basketry in the country with several books published, many courses taught and many interesting pieces to his credit aimed at the creation of site-specific projects in different spaces of medium or large dimensions Contrary to what is usual in design processes, Fontales proposes a free transit, from the emotion of the encounter with new techniques and materials, towards unforeseen results, discovered on the fly aimed at making people aware of and teaching people how to make things with vegetable fibers, not so much with the pretense that they can dedicate themselves to this activity in a professional manner, but rather for the fact that they know and enjoy making a basket or any other object in order to use it for whatever”
A fascinating basketry weaving workshop using natural fibers with Carlos Fontales, one of the most important experts in basketry in the country with several books published, many courses taught and many interesting pieces to his credit aimed at the creation of site-specific projects in different spaces of medium or large dimensions Contrary to what is usual in design processes, Fontales proposes a free transit, from the emotion of the encounter with new techniques and materials, towards unforeseen results, discovered on the fly aimed at making people aware of and teaching people how to make things with vegetable fibers, not so much with the pretense that they can dedicate themselves to this activity in a professional manner, but rather for the fact that they know and enjoy making a basket or any other object in order to use it for whatever”
A fascinating basketry weaving workshop using natural fibers with Carlos Fontales, one of the most important experts in basketry in the country with several books published, many courses taught and many interesting pieces to his credit aimed at the creation of site-specific projects in different spaces of medium or large dimensions Contrary to what is usual in design processes, Fontales proposes a free transit, from the emotion of the encounter with new techniques and materials, towards unforeseen results, discovered on the fly aimed at making people aware of and teaching people how to make things with vegetable fibers, not so much with the pretense that they can dedicate themselves to this activity in a professional manner, but rather for the fact that they know and enjoy making a basket or any other object in order to use it for whatever”