Cecilie Telle

Cecilie is a knitter and felt maker, a designer and teacher. She makes functional and practical items out of wool. All her products are hand made in London using the best quality wool, and her hands will have touched every piece.

She believes in taking time and care over every piece she makes, moving away from the mass produced, to create objects that have the presence of the human hand in the fabric.

To be truly contemporary one must always exist slightly outside of the present. She tries to make work that belongs to both the deep past and the coming future.

She is not scared of colour. She often uses vibrant, playful colour that evokes clothes and interiors from her childhood. 

It started at The Royal College of Art with a desire to create comfort and protection,
she began to nurture inanimate objects: twigs, logs, trees, eventually a sheep covered in its own jumper.
Later, she became fascinated by the science of what happens when you put a piece of knitting in the wash: essentially the transformation of a single thread into solid fabric; pure magic.
Each piece is unique with all its imperfections.

The past is reformed/reworked to fit the future.