Victoria, BCMade by hand
Julie Nixon smiling softly while stitching indigo cloth at her Ekte studio worktable
Now making · Shibori / 03

Hand Poured Dyed Stitched

Useful objects, original art and cloth with a memory of the hands that made them.

Julie NixonArtist + makerVictoria, BC
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01 · Process

Each mark keeps the hour that made it.

Ekte means genuine. Concrete holds its air pockets. Botanical colour softens with time. Sashiko carries every small decision in the thread. Variation is not a flaw here; it is proof of a human hand.

Julie, slowly making
Indigo Shibori cloth in the Ekte studio
Material 02
Indigo · folded, bound, dyed
Current collection · 07 objects

From the studio

Small runs in concrete, silk and cloth. Made to be used, touched and allowed to change.

Studio note · Victoria / 48.4284° N

The authentic self is soul made visible.

Ekte is a one-woman studio for graphic, useful things. Every object begins at Julie’s worktable and leaves with a small trace of its making intact.

Poured·Dyed·Stitched·Painted
Detail of the Sashiko Rhumb Lines wall hanging
The maker · Julie Nixon

Nature is the first studio.

Ocean weather, forest geometry and the useful honesty of Scandinavian design meet at Julie’s Victoria worktable. The result is warm, graphic and deliberately human.

Meet Julie
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