We are that great Southern land, both ancient and youthful.
Innate is powered by a conversation with the land itself and the role it plays in our lifestyle and our aesthetics. It is our point of difference. We bring together the best craftspeople in the world to realise Innate Textiles, a collection of fabrics, bath towels, cushions and throws for the home … your home, wherever it may be.
About our designers
Fiona Spence built her company Spence & Lyda into one of the leading design retailers in Australia before selling the business in 2022.
Wanda Jelmini spent her career as lead textile designer for the homewares branch of the illustrious Milanese fashion house Missoni before it was sold in 2018. As a niece to matriarch Rosita Missoni, Wanda was instrumental in the global success of Missoni Home.
The pair met when Spence and Lyda became the exclusive Australian distributor for Missoni Home in 2002 and established an immediate friendship and aesthetic understanding.
Decades later, each found themselves at pivotal points in their lives with great achievements to date and yet a sense of more to be done … and who better to collaborate with. The result is Innate Textiles.
Luke Sciberras
The first three Innate Textile collections are inspired by artworks of prominent Australian painter, Luke Sciberras. His visceral response to the textures, colours, light and forms of the Australian landscape provided the muse for Wanda and Fiona to develop the woven stories that are the Territory, Ilford and Bilpin collections.
‘To make an impression, a gesture or a glimpse of a memory is one of our most universal and natural instincts. The impulse to tell a story or more strongly, to share is the urge to embed a place or circumstance with the human condition. Painting and drawing is, to me, the very essence of all these expressions.’
Luke Sciberras original paintings.
Out of Katherine, Ilford Waratahs, Rising Heat Bilpin