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UTOPIA IN THE ANTHROPOCENE ################## ARTWORKS BY
MARGRETHE KOLSTAD BREKKE
MARGRETHE KOLSTAD BREKKE
Luxuria
detail
Horsehair embroidery
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Soft Concrete,
Salhus Trikkotasjemuseum 2011
Silk with linseed oil, wool and horsehair.
Based on the recipy used in a luxury collection of ladies-raincloth, produced by Helly Hansen in the 1940ties. A decade before the petroleum based materials became the only alternative for raincloth, HH made a collection with fine japanese silk.
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