Grammar of Colours Cage Cuff

One of the images featured in yesterday's post, a painting by Hilma af Klint entitled “Altarpiece”, features what looks like a colour scale pyramid.

The more I looked at it, the more I thought about German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald who, towards the end of his career shifted his attention to the study of shapes and tried to establish a scientific standardisation scheme for colours, developing instruments for measuring colours.

So, inspired by scales of colours and art, I took some of the Kyototex yarns I had lying around and re-fashioned out of the chainmail ones a cage like cuff. The shape is a crossover between the accessories in La decima vittima and one of those multi-purpose gauntlets seen in Modesty Blaise.

The fun twist? The leather strips with the metallic yarns can be inverted, swapped or removed as they are attached to the main structure via velcro straps, so that the piece can be reinvented around a bit. That's essentially why it's called "grammar of colours" cuff – colours act like bits and pieces of language that can be changed and reconfigured to create new looks rather than new sentences.