The fashion designer and fashion design mentor at the Department of Textiles, Graphic Arts and Design of the Faculty of Natural Science and Engineering (NTF) Almira Sadar entered the world of interior design accessories only last summer. It happened spontaneously. "Today all the branches of design are intertwined. Once you establish a well-formed concept of thinking, you can switch from designing clothes to designing accessories, jewelry, or interior design accessories. The way of thinking remains the same, only the result is different. When designing clothes you must bear a body in mind, as clothes are in motion, while when designing home accessories you must bear in mind the entire space, and how the accessories fit in," she explains.

Her first collection Summer 2015, with crocheted baskets of all sizes and coasters, later completed with decorative cushions, rugs and blankets, now enriched with baskets, cotton blankets in jacquard patterns, and poufs, i.e. "a kind of small tabouret chairs we can sit on, rest our feet on, or just put something on," she explains. Poufs are crocheted of rope, which accentuates the texture. Somewhat cold white-gray-blue colour palette of the Summer/Spring 2016 collection is livened up by yellow, and by the brightness of the tones.

All products are hand-made in Slovenia
All the products are hand-made in small quantities in Slovenia, by the Almira Sadar studio, and with the help of a family owned knitting enterprise. The traditional textile techniques of knitting, crocheting and weaving have been revived, "as it was my intention to revive needlework within the concept of sustainable design." According to Sadar needlework is reviving the forgotten cultural values of a time and space, and strengthens the emotional component in design.

Katja Štok, translated by G. K.