Kathryn comes from a long line of artisans dating back to the 1800s. The Iklé family produced over 1,450 beautiful textiles all over Europe for generations. Collections can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Folk Art Museum, the Cooper Hewitt-Smithsonian Design Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Textile Museum of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and the Museum für Völkerkunde, Basel, and the Musée du Trocadéro, Paris.
The Iklé textile collection at the St. Gallen Museum in Switzerland has been a reference for scholars and textile researchers for over a century. Leopold Iklé was born into a Textile family in Hamburg in 1838. From the age of 15, he worked as a traveling salesman for the family firm of Iklé Freres with branches in St Gall, Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, and New York, specializing in machine laces. He was a serious student of historic textiles. Eventually, his collection expanded from a box in his office to fill his home in St Gall.
Kathryn connects the past to the present by incorporating design and pattern into her own work. She highlights the Iklé passion for textiles and visually pays homage to her ancestors and the family business in her art.
View photos of Kathryn's December 2022 visit to the Bard Graduate Center Museum in Manhattan, New York for a private viewing of the Ikle lace collection 'Threads of Power'.
The Iklé textile collection at the St. Gallen Museum in Switzerland has been a reference for scholars and textile researchers for over a century. Leopold Iklé was born into a Textile family in Hamburg in 1838. From the age of 15, he worked as a traveling salesman for the family firm of Iklé Freres with branches in St Gall, Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, and New York, specializing in machine laces. He was a serious student of historic textiles. Eventually, his collection expanded from a box in his office to fill his home in St Gall.
Kathryn connects the past to the present by incorporating design and pattern into her own work. She highlights the Iklé passion for textiles and visually pays homage to her ancestors and the family business in her art.
View photos of Kathryn's December 2022 visit to the Bard Graduate Center Museum in Manhattan, New York for a private viewing of the Ikle lace collection 'Threads of Power'.
