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Designer and textile artist Sarah Wertzberger plays upon unexpected patterns and color combinations in beautiful, surprising ways. A graduate of RISD, Sarah maintains a multidisciplinary studio practice, but her work at the loom celebrates the freedom that comes with weaving by hand. Rather than planning a project and executing it to a tee, she lets her designs shift and fluctuate intuitively — the end result is a unique blend of artistic and functional objects, spanning handwoven blankets, pillows, and hanging artworks. We spoke with Sarah about some of the things that inspire, motivate, and inform her design process, from brightly lit New York bodegas to vernacular architecture from all over the world. When you sit down to make, what guides your design perspective? I enjoy designing against the parameters that are inherently set in place depending on the type of loom I am using and what type of object I am making, functional or not functional.