{"id":99780,"date":"2012-02-01T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/alpha-to-omega\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T18:27:48","slug":"alpha-to-omega","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/alpha-to-omega\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha to Omega: Edward Fields’ Alpha Workshops Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n As executive director of the nonprofit Alpha Workshops, Kenneth Wampler had trained people living with HIV and AIDS to create practically anything you can think of: furniture, lamps, wallpaper, decorative finishes. But not flooring. That changed with Edward Fields Carpet Makers’s Alpha Workshops Edition.\n <\/p>\n
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\n Adapted from archival\u00ad samples provided by Wampler, the 13 hand-tufted rugs have Greek names as a nod to Alpha’s. In Haldis, multiple levels of wool and matte silk replicate marble. Bedros features streaks of flax across a ground combining flax with matte silk. Epifanio reinterprets a finish on a clay sculpture in wool and glittery Lurex. Hester\u00ad takes an exercise in developing\u00ad a screen print and reimagines it in wool and matte silk. And Phaedra’s white viscose on bright yellow wool recalls an Alpha specialty that’s not Greek but Japanese, the 14th-century lacquering technique negoro-nuri.\n <\/p>\n