ELEGANCE AND CRAFTSMANSHIP
Our designers
THE ART OF CREATIVE DESIGN
The role played by our creators in the elaboration and creation process is fundamental. Expert hands from which come the collections we present to you, a work that in most cases is inherited from a long family tradition and that preserves the careful techniques and delicate processes with which these artists give life to their garments.
BEGOÑA CASTILLEJO SÁNCHEZ
She is a woman from Córdoba, artist, designer and textile creative. Qualified professional, she shows a high level of experience and a real enthusiasm for sharing her passion for knitting, teaching crochet and fringing in its different techniques.
He focuses part of his work on these ancient techniques that have their origins in the 16th century. She has managed to transform that knowledge, transmitted by her grandmother Francisca Caballero, into fashion. The tradition that until a few years ago we only saw reflected in rugs and quilts, has now been elevated to showrooms, catwalks, specialized magazines and styling shown in relevant events. In this way she introduces crochet and fringing in the category of art, with her "woven designs and canvases", as she herself defines her works.
The combination of elegance, good taste and simplicity stands out in its proposals.
JUANA ROMÁN RUEDA
She is a knitwear designer (for hand knitting on two needles) and knitting teacher. She has many years of experience in two-needle knitting as well as in sewing and pattern making.
Although she has a degree in Statistics, she is passionate about the world of fashion and especially the two-needle world since she started as a child thanks to her mother. She loves numbers, proportions, but also everything beautiful, words, people and in particular to be researching and learning all the time.
This eclecticism can be clearly seen in all her designs.
Almudena Castillejo Sánchez
(Córdoba, 1987) Plastic artist, muralist and illustrator. Honorary collaborator of the Aula Ingenia de Cultura y Tecnología of the University of Córdoba. Some of its collaborating clients are Cruzcampo, Vodafone, or the Reina Sofia University Hospital in Cordoba, among others. His work has been shown in numerous halls, galleries, museums and national and international festivals. "I am not a sailor, I am a captain", is her latest exhibition project.
Portraiture and elements deeply connected to his roots are his most recurrent leitmotifs. His work is characterized by a personal symbology. Defined by herself as an incessant storyteller.
Creator and artistic curator of the project "Algazara, the Present of the Caliphate". Multidisciplinary artistic collective from Córdoba that makes contemporary Andalusian art visible.
DAVID ALVAREZ
David is a cattle rancher, environmental technician and amateur historian, as well as a weaver. It is one half of the human part behind El Robledal de la Santa. Creating pieces with the fiber of his own animals, which he has known and cared for since birth, is a unique creative exercise that closes the fashion circle from the farm to the final garment.
PILAR ROBLES
She learned to weave at a very young age. For years, her profession and her large family kept her away from knitting.
Later she took it up again and taught herself and attended workshops, since there is no formal training in knitting and hand knitting in Spain. The classes she receives include crochet and two needles, including different techniques for the development and construction of garments and accessories.
Currently, she continues to learn pattern knitting, as well as advanced courses in crochet and wool embroidery. Passionate about the processes from the beginning, with direct contact with the small producer, and all the people involved in the development of the garment and fabric: designers, dyers and weavers. She is also involved in the design of the accessories that complement the garment, such as the brooches that are used to hold the shawls or the buttons that accompany all the designs.
Our knitters
CRATSMANSHIP & TRADITION
Hand weaving is an art form that has been passed down from generation to generation, the weavers create unique garments following the indications of the people who design the pieces, giving their stamp to each fabric and making it a unique piece.
