Designers & Companies

La Gadoue

Audrey Werthle and Eloïse Maës (c) Joan Repiso

Through a complex process of cutting, dyeing and assembling the left-over fabrics, La Gadoue turns them into unique creations. 

Bio

Being both designers and craftswomen, Audrey Werthle and Eloïse Maës - founders of La Gadoue - like to build things by hand in order to stay away from predictable industrial norms. However, it is not so innocent nowadays to bring new objects into the market. They therefore decided to create from what is already existing. They collect, transform and reuse textiles, which were envisaged as rubbish. Through a complex process of cutting, dyeing and assembling the left-over fabrics, La Gadoue turns them into unique creations. The endless shades of colours are driving their designs, whether they be organic or more geometrical. 
The duo also produces made-to-measure curtains, tapestries and installations. The second part of their activity is the practice of designing ceramics, which are applied mostly to murals and lighting.

Objects

Après la Tempête

With Après la tempête (After the storm), they reinvent a livable world beyond consumerism. From sorting centers, dozens of shirts abandoned by their former owners have been disassembled and disjointed. These fabric fragments, accumulated like shards of glass, fuse under the linear stitching of the quilting process, giving rise to a new material. Exposed to light, this textile material metamorphoses into a majestic stained-glass window.

Après la tempête is a 10 panels installation conceived in 2022 for the "Matières premières" exhibition at the Eleven Steens contemporary art center in Brussels, with the support of BeCraft (Mons, Belgium).

Textile works

La Gadoue collects, transforms and reuses textiles. Through a complex process of cutting, dyeing and assembling the left-over fabrics they are turned into unique creations.