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From this small workshop in Rennes come textile creations designed to adorn ourhomes and be used daily. The kind of unexpected artisanal pieces, both so closeand so different from those imagined by our teams and workshops. Before findingthem together for the first time in our showcases, let's meet Eléonore whounveils her manufacturing secrets.

 The first time I did something under that name was during my studies in textile design. It was the name of my diploma project, andI was already proposing textile objects at the time. I returned to this project 3-4 years ago with the desire to invest more time and energy into it.

I had been thinking about it for quite some time: to create objects for the home, orclothing. I was used to my mother giving me objects she designed herself, drew,and sewed. I leaned more towards the home to start with, using vintage sheetsor second-hand fabrics, sourced as locally as possible.

The name came to me one day at my grandparents' house. They live near rapeseed fields, and I immediately liked it. But the raw materials I use are: cotton,linen, hemp, locally produced wool, buckwheat husks or flax seeds, depending on the pieces. We'll find these seeds as filling or padding. In Brittany, they areeasily found and still very undervalued, even though they have interesting properties.

My two grandmothers, both seamstresses, taught me how to sew things very quickly: clothes, buttons. There's also the fact that I studied fine arts in Marseille, in the art section. There, I spent a lot of time dyeing with plants or exploring plant fibers.

 The idea is to offer objects that can adapt to any home,follow us everywhere: a trivet, a chair backrest, a cushion, bed linen, or even meditation bricks or hot water bottles filled with flax seeds. I mainly follow my needs in this creative process. I think it's a good way to come up with ideas for everyday useful items. Both my mother and I work on these pieces. Idesign them, my mother prototypes them, and then we sew them together. I handlethe sourcing of raw materials.

They consist of round cushions and bricks made in a range of white, ecru, beige textiles, filled with buckwheat husks from La Rocheraie farm just next to my place, which produces a wide variety of flours.

 For this collaboration, I mainly sought a way to showcase the bags, whether it bethrough the shape of the bag, its hue, or its material. We used a fabric called"fleur bleue," it's called a "metis," a blend of cotton andlinen. And other fabrics from the 70s, 80s. Each type of support is unique, andsome are more difficult to work with than others.