QUILL Nanimarquina

QUILL, nanimarquina. Design by Nao Tamura.
QUILL, nanimarquina. Design by Nao Tamura. | Mood board—leaf skeletons, feathers, a dandelion seed: structures that hold air.
Mood board—leaf skeletons, feathers, a dandelion seed: structures that hold air.
QUILL, nanimarquina. Design by Nao Tamura. | Early studies: feathers traced, cut, and rearranged on paper.
Early studies: feathers traced, cut, and rearranged on paper.
QUILL, nanimarquina. Design by Nao Tamura. | Hand drawing: one feather, line by line, until it holds together.
Hand drawing: one feather, line by line, until it holds together.
QUILL, nanimarquina. Design by Nao Tamura. | The full feather on the frame—one maker, one rug. Photo: Nanimarquina
The full feather on the frame—one maker, one rug. Photo: Nanimarquina
QUILL, nanimarquina. Design by Nao Tamura. | Hand-tufting, thread by thread. No two pass the same way. Photo: Nanimarquina
Hand-tufting, thread by thread. No two pass the same way. Photo: Nanimarquina
QUILL, nanimarquina. Design by Nao Tamura. | Finishing the edge—wool clippings everywhere, the shape emerging in India. Photo: Nanimarquina
Finishing the edge—wool clippings everywhere, the shape emerging in India. Photo: Nanimarquina
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QUILL, nanimarquina. Design by Nao Tamura. | Overlapping like feathers fallen in a corner of a room. Photo: Nanimarquina
Overlapping like feathers fallen in a corner of a room. Photo: Nanimarquina
QUILL, nanimarquina. Design by Nao Tamura. | At work: the pattern reads as texture first, drawing second.  Photo: Nanimarquina
At work: the pattern reads as texture first, drawing second. Photo: Nanimarquina
QUILL, nanimarquina. Design by Nao Tamura. |  Three sizes, three greys—feathers scattered across a floor. Photo: Nanimarquina
Three sizes, three greys—feathers scattered across a floor. Photo: Nanimarquina