"The collaboration brings together Designtex's deep expertise in high-performance contract textiles and nanimarquina's poetic command of craft, tactility, and the beauty of the imperfect. For both teams, the partnership emerged from an immediate sense of kinship - a shared language of material integrity, color sensitivity, and a respect for heritage techniques reinterpreted for contemporary spaces. "We did that by using performance yarns and intentionally embedding imperfections into the weaving process.""
"If Mending feels nostalgic, or perhaps even emotional, that's because it is. The textile is a meditation on visible repair at a time when the instinct to 'fix' everything perfectly can feel both exhausting and impossible. "When we see something hand-sewn, something irregular, we understand it," says Nani Marquina, founder and designer of her eponymous studio. "Maybe we don't need to fix everything; maybe we just need to hold it together... We understand a thread. We understand a stitch. That's enough.""
Designtex and nanimarquina introduced two textile collections, Join and Mending, born from a multi-year collaboration centered on connection, repair, and intentional making. The partnership pairs Designtex's high-performance contract textile expertise with nanimarquina's craft-driven tactility and an embrace of the imperfect. Teams aligned around material integrity, color sensitivity, and reinterpreting heritage techniques for contemporary environments. The creative approach uses performance yarns while intentionally embedding imperfections in weaving to balance industrial durability and handmade intimacy. Mending foregrounds visible repair through woven patch motifs that present mending as evidence of care and emotional resonance in commercial settings.
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