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Flora Mangana
Vulpine Hand Woven Cloth
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I was born and raised in a small village in Greece to a family of weavers and embroiderers. I grew up surrounded by my grandmother’s handwoven textiles, made from wool she spun herself and dyed using plants from her garden.

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I began weaving more than 20 years ago in San Francisco as a student of Peggy Osterkamp. Over the years, weaving has become my way of pushing back against an increasingly mechanized world and creating sustainable, functional cloth by hand, inspired by archival designs and traditional techniques.

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I created Vulpine Cloth as a way to bring order to everyday chaos and make something honest and beautiful from it. Working with natural materials and a zero waste approach, I produce small batches of one of a kind textiles designed to be used, loved, and passed down for generations. It is my way of carrying on the craft while honoring the human labor behind it.

I work from my home studio in Oakland, California, alongside two vintage looms and my feline studio assistant. When I’m not weaving, I can usually be found propagating vintage roses, riding across town on my vintage Raleigh bicycle, my only means of transportation, listening to opera, or studying natural dyes. My heart beats for all things old.

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