Large-scale textile installations in bold colour and metallic rope
Milla is a Netherlands-based fiber artist working with hand-knotted textiles. She creates large-scale wall hangings and immersive textile installations for interiors, architecture, and public spaces. Her work moves between art and craft, with a strong focus on material, space, and atmosphere.
Born to Chilean parents, Milla draws deep inspiration from her Indigenous heritage from south-central Chile. Through her mother, who still practices traditional weaving, she was introduced early to patterns, Indigenous symbolism, and material traditions passed down through generations. Rather than copying these traditions, Milla reinterprets them, translating ancestral techniques and patterns into a contemporary, large-scale knotted visual language.
All works are designed and handmade in her studio in Heemstede, often developed in close collaboration with collectors, architects, and cultural partners. Scale is central to her practice. Her works do more than fill a space visually: they shape its acoustics, its warmth, and the way it is experienced.
Alongside natural fibers, Milla works with custom-developed metallic ropes, pushing traditional knotting techniques into new territory. For her most recent outdoor immersive installation, presented at Tanweer Festival in the Mleiha Desert, Sharjah, she developed new approaches using weather-resistant materials, allowing her work to exist in changing outdoor conditions.
Colour is Milla's way of reaching the next generation. Her bold, popping palettes of neon orange, hot pink, royal blue, and electric yellow are designed to stop people in their tracks, especially younger audiences who spend much of their lives looking at screens. Her installations are an invitation to put the phone down, step inside, and feel something real. She hopes to show young people that making something with your own hands is not old-fashioned, but one of the most contemporary and grounding things you can do.
For Milla, craft is also a healer. The slow, repetitive rhythm of knotting calms the mind, brings you back into your body, and creates space to simply be present. It is a practice she has carried through her own life, and one she wants to pass on: craft not as nostalgia or decoration, but as a way to slow down, reconnect, and care for yourself in a fast, digital world.
Her work has been commissioned internationally for high-end interiors, hospitality projects, galleries, and cultural settings. Across all formats, her focus remains the same: turning fiber into something physical and spatial, work you don't just look at, but experience.
