Celestina is a small scale knitwear studio based in Warsaw.
The name is inspired by my partner’s grandmother, who run a pasmanteria in Rome throughout her whole life from 1960s. Her shop was placed on via dei Gracchi and called Celestina Mode. After listening to many stories about her fierce character, I’ve fallen in love with her a little bit, therefore decided to continue her legacy.
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Being strongly against an idea of fast fashion, I am both knitting and researching vintage objects that I’ll be posting each month in different sizes, forms and patterns
Felted hats are inspired by traditional Albanian hats called qeleshe or plis. There are many ways to make the qeleshe but it is always hand made. The most common way, in Kosovo, is using soap on the wool. Mine are first knitted by hand with raw Polish wool coming from Beskidy mountains. The wool is beaten and pressed until the strands become knotted around each other and then dried for a few days on a special form.
Making a solitary hat takes me roughly 4 days.
Celestina Mode was set up by Marta Weronika Orlikowska.
Currently the only person in the studio, knitting and felting all your orders by hand.