How to build a character
The process behind a small narrative made with fiber, from sketch to final stitch.
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Cuento de Hilos · Textile Art Studio
There are stories
that only exist
when someone stitches them.
Textile works, sculptural characters, and research into craft as artistic language.
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“Some stories can only be told with thread.” · The Manifesto, Cuento de Hilos
01
The studio
A studio where craft becomes language.
Cuento de Hilos began by making small textile pieces. But it never wanted to stay there. Over time we understood that weaving wasn't the destination: it was the language. That wool wasn't the purpose: it was the medium.
The studio is a laboratory, a library, an archive of materials. A space where books, fibers, tools, and projects at different stages coexist. It's not a perfect space, but an authentic one.
Get to know the studio ›2017Starts embroidering.
2019First textile sculptures.
2021Commissions.
2024Research.
2026Museo del Oro.
TodayCuento de Hilos.
Work
Eight lines of creation. One way of thinking.
We don't organize our work by product. We organize it by lines of creation: different ways in which the same story can take shape.
I
Original Works
Pieces born of personal inquiry. The creative core of the studio.
Core
II
Installations
Works conceived to engage with a specific space and its architecture.
Space
III
Commissions
Shared creative processes, not a catalog of options.
Process
IV
Collections
Works that share a common inquiry: a material, a landscape, a question.
Research
V
Characters
Small narratives built with fiber. The studio's origin.
Origin
VI
Research
Materials, techniques, processes, and references that feed every other line.
Laboratory
VII
Learning
Workshops, courses, and programs that share a way of seeing, not just a technique.
Teaching
VIII
Archive
Documenting is also creating. The studio's living memory.
Memory
02
Research
The workshop is also a laboratory.
Researching isn't preparing for a piece. It's letting the piece find its own form. Every project leaves new questions; every question opens new paths.
Explore the research ›Journal
The studio's open notebook.
Social media and the journal aren't a showcase. We share processes, questions, references, materials, mistakes, and discoveries.
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Collections
Chapters of the same inquiry.
Collections bring together works that share a question: a material, a landscape, a territory, a memory. There's no hierarchy between a private collection piece and a museum installation: it's the same intention, expressed at different scales.
“I don't chase perfection. I chase pieces worth preserving for decades.”
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