My BA diploma project at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, which resulted in a publication and an exhibition installation.

The project deals with the history of the Kowary Carpet Factory, situated at the base of the Karkonosze Mountains in south-western Poland. After upgrading its production methods in the 1960s, the factory grew to an impressive enterprise that employed over 3000 workers, exporting woven carpets worldwide. The carpet patterns were first meticulously hand-painted on paper by a team of female designers, and then used to program the weaving machines. In 2009 the factory closed its doors, leaving behind little of its impressive library of designs.

Using the risograph printer as a reproduction tool, I’ve transformed one of the remaining pattern papers, and collected what remains of the worker’s legacy in a publication. Following a semester long research into the subject matter, the book combines scarce historical material with reinterpretations of that material I have made in absence of an ‘proper’ archive.