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"Silk Road" - limited edition handmade wool rug | Area Rug in Rugs by Johanna Boccardo. Item composed of wool and fiber
"Silk Road" - limited edition handmade wool rug | Area Rug in Rugs by Johanna Boccardo. Item composed of wool and fiber

Created and Sold by Johanna Boccardo

Johanna Boccardo

"Silk Road" - limited edition handmade wool rug

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A playful take on an ancient art form.

This Gabbeh Knot rug is a limited edition of ten art rugs, woven by Odabashian's network of family-owned weavers near Mirzapur, India with the finest New Zealand wool. This rug was shown at the 2017 Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair in Mexico City.

Inspired by the traditional Gabbeh rugs from Persia. Traditionally, the knotting and weaving of nomadic carpets are a woman's domain and area of expertise. True nomadic rugs such as the Gabbeh are almost exclusively knotted for personal use, and often the woman's spirit and natural artisanship are quite apparent in these personal interpretations of their life in art. In "Silk Road", Boccardo celebrates the importance of women's roles in propagating culture along the world's history.

Woven with premium New Zealand wool.

About the maker:
Established in 1921, Odabashian is a creative conduit for artists, designers, architects and creatives to learn, explore and create using traditional hand-made rug-making techniques for applications across all design industries.

Item "Silk Road" - limited edition handmade wool rug
Created by Johanna Boccardo
As seen in Private Residence, Miami, FL
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Johanna Boccardo
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2019
Art is how I contemplate and understand the blurred boundaries between real and virtual life and what is private or public.

Miami-based Venezuelan artist Johanna Boccardo has an ample creative career that includes fine arts, editorial illustration, product design, as well as urban street art.

Through the masterful use of different media, she explores the application and interaction of color sequences to develop abstract ideas and concepts at various levels of non-literal meaning.

I grew up in a small colonial city in the Guayana region of Venezuela along the banks of the Orinoco river. A lot of my childhood was spent at my grandparent’s house, a magical place where the exotic and the familiar mixed, where every plant and animal exploded with vivid color. Life was intimate, personal, and private.

Today a lot of my output is the result of collaboration, whether it’s exploring inner worlds with private clients or augmenting public spaces for cultural institutions or companies. Art is how I contemplate and understand the blurred boundaries between real and virtual life and what is private or public.