Lilla Hagymásy Rosenberg                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  










Inspired by, and based on, historical knitting 

Striving to create researched garments that call out to a time-worn past

Rengetegekben





Exploring memory through wool, walnut hull, and cotton 




List of items:

Hand knit Tudor flat cap, knit according to historical records

Deadstock wool pullover, full fashioned on a domestic knitting machine

Pants, cotton and linen, hand dyed in walnut hull
Sewn according to records of handmaking traditional Hungarian men’s peasant pants

Backdrop, hand painted with thickened walnut hull over a walnut-dyed bedsheet






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Photos taken in collaboration with Lulu Hamilton in an effort to create authenticity through artifice.
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Talent: Abi Boquette
Production Design: Lilla Rosenberg + Lara Best Bloomfield
Photographer: Lulu Hamilton
Photo Assist: Sam Anderson













golden diffused light, 
crackling woods,
the highway bursting along under skittering rocks

How beautiful, how barbarous 












   Flaxen


I was given care of a mannequin for a week, and was drawn to the artifice of taking photos of my garments on her echoing body. She, herself, is a marker of times since past. I was drawn to a home in between existences, unclothed.

Photographed in the fall of 2024
 




Tudor cap, undyed wool, handknit and fulled according to 16th century tecniques

Tarisznya side bag, machine knit and hand fulled deadstock wool, finished by hand

Victorian chemise, mended with walnut dyed linen

Bő gatya, or wide pants, made based on images in Hungarian folk archive 
Cotton, hand-dyed in black walnut hull  

                    
                         







In a place where the wild onions sway




















Liam, in a fulled wool rendition of the Tudor Cap 

Wool hat knit by hand according to transcripts and 
paintings of the era

Dressed in Victorian garments, mended and embellished 
with thread and walnut hull-dyed scraps
 
Images shot by artist, in the first light of morning




 

Knit using double-pointed needles,
 as seen in this detail from 
the Buxtehude altar, Northern Germany, 1400-1410 


Man Weighing Gold, ca. 1515-30
Adriaen Isenbrant
MET Collection



In an effort to make as they made 




                     

        Tudor Flat Cap

       






      

        Taken in afternoon light, among trees felled by 
        hurricane winds.

        Modelled by Avery Fazio

        Photos shot by artist, in a space close to home






















Mia, in the Tudor cap

Handknit undyed worsted, fulled to size

Images taken among the flutter of wings,  just out of reach












Mila, in garments knit and mended

Machine knit cardigan, boiled wool
Crochet finishings, handstitched buttonholes

Tudor cap in undyed wool, handknit and fulled in fingering

Machine knit tarisznya side bag

Victorian knickers, darned and secured by hand



Modeled by Mila Kiryakakis
Images shot by artist in early morning light













       

Tudor flat cap
Pattern made based on research into medieval knitting guilds
The MET Textile Conservation archive was especially helpful ‘


Grafting double knit brim 






Fulled Tudor cap
Knit in worsted wool

















Liam, in garments from capsul collection In Sheep’s Clothing

A knit capsul collection centered on the things we hide under beauty, told from the lens of the Hungarian pastoral  

When we toil.. .

Deadstock and American wools, machine knit and fulled

Some garments rust dyed using found objects

Hand finished with stitched and crochet








Heirloom

















A collaborative knitwear concept conceived with Penelope Eltringham

Created in an effort to harken back to the ways our ancestors made + wore clothing

Questioning the devalued nature of modern textiles, focused on undergarments

With concepts focused on made-to-mend, overdying with natural dyes to cover staining, and a small batch production model

Knit on domestic knitting machines as well as the Dubied

Project submitted to Cotton Incorporated competition in Spring of 2024, awarded first place in Collaborative design.





Making: Lilla Rosenberg + Penelope Eltringham

Photography: Meggie Phelan

Jewelry: Isabella Donoghue

Talent: Margaux Menard



My Rusted Cup Runneth Over








Bryce, in a rust-dyed Tudor cap
Handknit, handfulled, handdyed 







Kordhadt Collection






Knit capsule exploring decaying buildings and the effect environments have on their inhabitants, specifically focused on Budapest, Hungary.

Knit in the summer of 2023

To harken back to a hand-worn time
What remains is all that is left















Deadstock wool yarns, knit on domestic knitting machine
Handyed with rust post-construction

Photographed by Lulu Hamilton
Lighting Assist: Hannah Baurle
Models: Avery Fazio, Curren McDonough, Kayla Fierko












Korhadt


Isabelle Leaf in a dress knit in summer of 2023
deadstock wool

Photographed by Kylie Shaieb