With macrame, a young textile designer relaunches a unique know-how

Threads, threads everywhere that intertwine so that you can no longer recognize each other… It’s really macrame. A know-how and artisanal productions with a little taste of the hippie years which could well know a certain “revival”. “It’s a technique consisting of making, meticulously and with the greatest regularity, a series of knots from threads or cords”, explains Diane Diebold, an Alsatian textile designer and craftsman. The 21-year-old young woman has indeed specialized in this “ancestral technique relating to the art of the hand” to launch her activity. For productions “which can naturally adapt to various universes such as interior design, furniture, fashion, landscaping…”

Due to her young structure and in the absence of already having a workshop, Diane Diebold is currently developing at home in Brumath (Bas-Rhin) this know-how which she discovered during an end-of-studies internship during of his degree in textile design at the Le Corbusier school in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, near Strasbourg. An internship with the artisan-textile designer Laurentine Périlhou in Toulouse and which “was like a revelation”, confides the young woman.

Trade fairs

Since then, she has been preparing her projects for a long time and creating unique pieces: dividing wall, seats, trellis and shade sails, lampshades, fashion accessories… On the business side, the young woman works on partnerships with other professionals, craftsmen, industrialists, “enough to share knowledge, our combined know-how and work on common projects” underlines the young woman.

And to help it in its development, Diane Diebold launched a participatory online kitty and achieved its goal. Mainly to acquire spools of thread, because although macramé is time-consuming, it is also very greedy: one of his latest productions, a 2.5 square meter screen, required more than a kilometer of thread. A kitty that will also allow you to register for professional fairs such as Résonances (Strasbourg), the Carrousel des Métiers D’arts (Paris), Cousu de Fil Rouge (Vosges) in order to present your samples and canvass future customers. Then in the long term, to finance and develop a place of experimentation and productions” even if now, she intends rather “to settle in a shared workshop in Strasbourg”… Or even later, to offer initiations to macramé, to welcome trainees, deploy large-scale projects”, she explains.

But for now, she is already overbooked and is preparing, among other things, an order for well-known Italian designers who will be exhibiting in Paris next June. And to develop her small business, she attaches herself to the manufacture of objects in small series, experiments with macramé with various materials and on different scales. A production that she wants above all to be as eco-responsible as possible. “I use threads manufactured in France, or in Germany, not far away, but also recycled threads, sometimes even from old inner tubes”. A multitude of ideas in short, to weave your web…