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Designers > Apparel/Accessories > Saule Bapanova Textiles > Saule Bapanova Bio
 For over 20 years, Saule Bapanova and her husband Alibay Bapanov, leading artists in their home country of Kazakhstan, have worked together creating intricate hand-woven and hand-felted tapestries. They masterfully blend centuries-old weaving skills and Central Asian cultural icons with modern artistic expression. Always seeking new artistic challenges, Saule began translating her weaving, felting and color composition skills to garments.
Felting onto a base of hand-woven raw silk from Uzbekistan, in ever surprising and amazing color combinations, Saule transforms the lose wool fibers into a textile poem. The contrast between opaque and transparent, pattern and solid, ancient craft and progressive style make each shawl a precious, distinctive piece of wearable art.
Saule lives in Almatyin Almaty, Kazakhstan and is a professor for Applied Arts at the National Academy of Art there.
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