BY Marcella Echavarria | July 12, 2010

 
It is such a pleasure to find pure talent at the market.  This is the case of Somporn Intaraparyong or Nell to make it shorter.  She is a regular at the market but every year she brings from Thailand a whole new world of textures and experiments that connect meditation and healing in tangible pieces of cloth, scarves and bags.  This year she brought indigo, hemp and cotton textures cut in ancestral shapes that resemble kimonos and monk's robes with a modern twist. Nell has no pattern and no plan, she feels the breath of the material and cuts and sews by hand, piece by pieces. She feels and understands the materials that are hand spun and dyed in the villages and then hand stitched and treated in the slums.   New this year are the one of a kind bags, the shinny paper like cotton treated with egg whites and the super chic cotton with indigo paste.