Our background

I have a big family: mom, dad, an older brother, an older sister, me, and a younger brother. I can’t say that I was very happy in my childhood about having so many of us; there was always a constant competition for our parents’ attention. But over time, I found some positives. For instance, you could always shift your responsibilities to one of the spare kids. Now that we’ve all grown up and are no longer the youth, we have lost one of our parents forever. The most touching moments were the ones I didn’t particularly like as a child, namely the family gatherings during holidays, when mom would prepare her signature cabbage and egg pie. For dessert, we’d have tea from porcelain tea sets and eat as many candies as we wanted, without any restrictions. Mom loves to reminisce about our childhood stories one by one, stories we know by heart. For example, at Christmas, she tells the stories about the ornaments on the Christmas tree; each of the four kids has their own “signature” ornament, and every time, mom recalls the circumstances under which that ornament became yours. I remember mine well; it’s a glass ball with fabric patches glued on to look like a smiley face, with button eyes. I distinctly remember waking dad up to sew on those buttons; he could never say no to me.

I grew up, graduated from the Faculty of Biology, worked at a microbiology research institute, and then left it all to pursue a business in fashion, but that’s another story altogether. Now, with all my experience, I wanted to create something outside of fashion and all the rules, something warm and family-oriented. That’s the whole idea behind basic+.

Essentially, basic+ textiles are an attempt to document time within the product, creating a way to remember the circumstances under which a drawing was made, providing an opportunity for the family to gather and engage in conversations about stories that are meaningful only to us. It’s a pity that our mom didn’t have the opportunity to receive such a tablecloth when we were little, but now she has a tablecloth with drawings from her grandchildren, and every family holiday, she brings it to the table with us.