Her techniques are rooted in places like Japan and Morocco—pretty worldly, huh?

Erin Considine is pretty adept with her yarn. “I learned to knit and crochet from my college roommates. Then I took fiber-arts classes in college, but I started knitting with wire, which led me to jewelry,” says the designer, who now incorporates woven elements into nearly all of the pieces in her detailed line. She gives us a look at an in-process spring piece—and a sense of where she’s headed.


“This shaggy piece will be affixed to a bracelet structure—a cuff I’m working on. This is the first one I’ve done that is color-blocked. Normally I do more variation, more randomness. The peachy madder root is my all-time favorite color.”


“I found this loom on a weaving forum. This lady was getting rid of it for twenty dollars. What I’m doing here is a rug-knotting technique. It’s very similar to Moroccan rug-weaving, and I originally got the idea from a latch-hook rug—you know, the kind you see at flea markets with Garfield on them. This is much faster than latching into a piece of burlap and affixing each strand.”


“I save all of my scraps. I don’t throw anything away because I go through the trouble of dyeing it, and it’s all so pretty. So this allows me to use those smaller pieces. I knot them around every other strand.”


“For this collection, I used plain-weaving, wrapping, coiling, knotting, and braiding. I’m starting to explore this kumihimo technique, which is a type of Japanese weaving. When I do it on the subway, people are like, ‘Is that a game?’ Or they think I’m carrying around a mobile.”

Click here to score the piece Erin wove for us! And, in case you missed it yesterday, see how she achieves her amazing color palette right over here.