iota Project for Adish

This season, we had the opportunity to team up with iota Project on a set of hand-knitted jumper crewnecks. Our partnership brought together Syrian refugee knitters in Istanbul and embroiderers in the West Bank, occupied Palestine.

Founded in 2014, iota Project is a social design brand, focusing on preserving the handcraft of crochet through the creation of new aesthetics and unique luxurious homeware designs, while employing, teaching and empowering communities. The crocheting technique is a handcraft passed from generation to generation. iota Project teaches the skill of knitting and enables practicing it to earn an honest living.

Adish jointly developed a hand-knitted jumper crewneck in four colorways, made in collaboration with iota’s designers and knitting community in Istanbul. iota Project’s designers tried several types and colors of bespoke yarn before finding the ones used for these pieces. Each item was then adorned with handmade Manajel embroidery by artisans in occupied Palestinian territories.

Head over to our webstore to shop and have another look at the pieces.