Weavings and Wrappings Form Stunning Textile Art to Wear Around Your Neck

Fiber artist Sum­mer Moore has cre­at­ed a col­lec­tion of hand-woven jew­el­ry called LESH. The state­ment-mak­ing pieces show­case the beau­ty of tex­tiles by comb­ing chunky ropes, intri­cate weav­ings, and col­or­ful fringe into wear­able art.

Sum­mer’s work was ini­tial­ly inspired by, she writes, of “antique Andean tex­tiles through­out the Sacred Val­ley of Peru.” She lat­er com­plet­ed an artist res­i­den­cy in Ibrahim­paşa, a small vil­lage in Turkey. There, she “immersed her­self in weav­ing com­plex fiber jew­el­ry and exper­i­ment­ing with hand-dyed mate­ri­als.” The expe­ri­ence informed what LESH is today.

LESH has many pieces now avail­able online, and you can fol­low Sum­mer’s work in progress on Insta­gram.