Saskia de Brauw
The Accidental Weave 3, 2025

About 10 years ago I started to collect discarded objects that I found on my walks through cities, on beaches and in forests; folded and trampled on paper, torn out book pages, small objects, rear view mirrors, bird wings, playing cards, pieces of thread and lots more. In 2016 part of this archive was published in my first book « The Accidental Fold ».

More recently I have started weaving, using this archive of found objects. Each object is connected to a place and a time and by weaving them together they start to tell a story of their own. — Saskia de Brauw

Saskia de Brauw (born 1981, Amsterdam) is a Dutch multidisciplinary artist and model whose work spans writing, performance, and assemblage.

De Brauw’s artistic work focuses on overlooked details of daily life. For years she carried a portable scanner to document discarded or incidental objects, building an archive that led to large-scale prints exhibited at the National Museum of Scotland in 2014 and published in her book The Accidental Fold (2016).

Her ongoing series The Accidental Weave expands this approach. Using both her existing archive and new materials found during urban and rural walks, she weaves unrelated fragments together to reveal new connections. A selection of works from this series was shown in her 2025 exhibition One Thread at a Time in Paris.

Found soiled bookpages (Paris, France)
24 x 22 cm (Unframed)
Paris, 2025

© Saskia de Brauw