German designer Anke Hennig’s pieces are an eye-catching symbiosis of traditional technique and ambitious creativity. Hennig discovered that the 19th-century braiding technique “Häkelgalon” is an ideal medium for making contemporary jewelry. Flat braids of fine threads, made up of colored nylon, cotton, silk and other filaments, are wound around and over themselves to form a spiral, providing an unusual three-dimensional aesthetic that makes it difficult to imagine its origin. The way the flimsy elegance of the braids is combined with decorative volume is both the characteristic and the secret of their creator. Hennig was educated at the Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst & Design in Halle, Germany. A year of study in Italy gave Hennig a fascination for old textile techniques and their potential for contemporary interpretation.
