N°2
Living Knowledge
Qamīs
Knowledge lives through practice. Qamīs extends into working textile environments where materials, machines and skilled hands meet in the daily process of making.
Katbe Textile Factory
Hadath
A working textile factory offers an encounter with the processes behind cloth. The relationship between thread, machinery and the people who guide production brings the material origins of the shirt into focus.
Tom’s Sons Pleating Workshop
Antelias
Pleating transforms the surface and structure of fabric. The workshop introduces a specialist practice in which precision, repetition and experience give cloth a new form.
Together, these places connect the edition’s questions to knowledge that remains active and continues to be practised and transmitted.
Photography: Marya Ghazzaoui · Graphics: Studio Safar
