{"id":1008,"date":"2018-06-12T22:02:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T22:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2023-04-09T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T09:46:04","slug":"ronel-jordaan-wool-magician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/12\/ronel-jordaan-wool-magician\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronel Jordaan: Wool Magician"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BK5dTX-AJzg\/?taken-by=roneljordaantex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-1008 wp-image-1009 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-prod.wescover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/14473958_316917848666843_28084052414169088_n.jpg\" alt=\"Ronel Jordaan\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-prod.wescover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/14473958_316917848666843_28084052414169088_n.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/blog-prod.wescover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/14473958_316917848666843_28084052414169088_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-prod.wescover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/14473958_316917848666843_28084052414169088_n-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog-prod.wescover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/14473958_316917848666843_28084052414169088_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a> Ronel Jordaan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">Ronel Jordaan of <a class=\"_2u0z\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/creator\/ronel-jordaan\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=472272879461724\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Ronel Jordaan Textiles<\/a> has been a textile designer for 26 years, but it was in 2003 that she began to turn fine gossamer thread (fine spider silk) into her signature creations.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">Her famous Rock Cushions are hand felted with Merino wool by artisans in a women\u2019s workshop she set up in Cape Town, South Africa. Who knew a rock could be so comfy? As soon as I discovered her I\u2019ve been marveling at the juxtaposition between youthful novelty and minimalistic elegance of these completely comfortable and functional interior design pieces.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">Sometimes, I am lucky enough to stumble upon creators that bring their wild imaginations to life in a practical and perfectionistic way. Ronel is easily one of these creators.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/creator\/ronel-jordaan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\" data-lynx-uri=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wescover.com%2Fcreator%2Fronel-jordaan&amp;h=ATP4OYzWDoeZJb1W0vc0qa9zEgPVUL_1sTmmsKjdTrHxOWFdw_gMb2NPLFwtPgnVBXE0JMoTqSJd6pKF7pRer3FpXBl0NbWtHrLIgE87R_W1Q6qW6U49EYIajNNdzEpuWliEuiJvs6g5luVQVs6a4A\">Find a place you can experience her rock cushions on our design map &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-post-1008 wp-image-776 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wescover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wescover_logo_fbshare_optimized-2-e1522367528844.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"26\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronel Jordaan &#8211; Ronel Jordaan of Ronel Jordaan Textiles has been a textile designer for 26 years, but it was in 2003 that she began to turn fine gossamer thread (fine spider silk) into her signature creations. Her famous Rock Cushions are hand felted with Merino wool by artisans in a women\u2019s workshop she set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,1375,1372,1373],"tags":[374,26,375,376,377,378,77,379],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-categories","category-all-community","category-community","category-creators-sellers","tag-cape-town","tag-creator-qa","tag-minimalism","tag-ronel-jordaan","tag-ronel-jordaan-textiles","tag-south-africa","tag-textiles","tag-wool"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9456,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/9456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}