JW Anderson’s Limited Edition Hand-knit & Woven Blankets.

At the Women’s Autumn Winter 2021 show, JW Anderson presented a limited-edition series of hand-knit and woven blankets developed by Anderson in collaboration with artists Dame Magdalene Odundo DBE and Shawanda Corbett. Six hand-knit blanket styles are available featuring three works from each Odundo and Corbett. The hand-knit versions are made-to-order with a limited production of ten.

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Dame Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo DBE (born 1950) is a Kenyan-born British studio potter, who now lives in Farnham, Surrey. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Odundo received her early education in both India and Kenya, following on with studies in Graphics and Commercial Art, Graphic Design, later specialising in ceramics.

“You’re told that you need two hands to make certain things, but that’s not true at all. It’s just about problem-solving,” says the Mississippi-born ceramic sculptor and performance artist, Shawanda Corbett, who’s currently studying for a doctorate in fine arts. Corbett was born with one arm and without legs, but this never stopped her from pursuing her art, having invented a bespoke throwing technique. “To throw on the wheel, it turns out that you actually only need one point of pressure,” she says. “You can use the wheel’s centrifugal force as the counterbalance.”

To find out more about this fantastic collaboration and the blankets, visit jwanderson.com.

[Images courtesy of JW Anderson.]