Crossing Threads

DESTINATION PHILIPPINES ✈️🇵🇭

Starting today, our studio pauses as we step away for a family holiday, with operation resuming on May 26.

We’re returning to The Philippines, our motherland, for the first time in over a decade. It feels significant and deeply personal. We’ll be revisiting our ancestral hometown of Lucban, a place woven into our story, and we know it will be an emotional homecoming.

This time, we return not only as artists, but as parents, seeing and experiencing it all through a new lens. We’re curious about what this journey will awaken, what memories will resurface, and how this time of rest, reconnection and reflection may shape our practice moving forward.

Orders placed during this period will be carefully prepared and dispatched in the week commencing May 26, once we return to the studio.

We’ll have limited access to emails and will check in where we can. All messages will be responded to thoughtfully upon our return, with urgent enquiries prioritised where possible.

Thank you, as always, for your patience and support. We feel incredibly grateful to share this journey with you and look forward to returning to the studio feeling rested, grounded and inspired.

Photos captured by Lauren during our last trip.

✨NEW✨// ‘PAHIYAS’ by Lauren + Kass Hernandez Now on-view at  from 15 April to 9 May

Please join us at the opening launch:

🗓️ Saturday 18 April, 3-5pm
📍609 Elizabeth Street, Redfern, Sydney

Our ‘PAHIYAS’ collection is inspired by the Pahiyas Festival celebrated in our ancestral hometown of Lucban, Quezon in the Philippines. It remains a vivid memory for us — the intense heat, crowds laughing through the streets, and the joyful spectacle of homes transformed with colourful harvest offerings. We can still picture the playful costumes, even skirts made of eggplants, reflecting the humour and inventiveness that define the celebration.

Pahiyas is a farmers’ thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest, held in honour of Saint Isidore the Laborer, the patron saint of farmers. In this tradition, villagers transform their homes with vibrant displays of rice wafers, fruits, vegetables, and handmade decorations as a gesture of gratitude for the season’s abundance.

The word hiyas, meaning “jewel” or “something precious,” underpins this collection, guiding how we think about labour, devotion, and making. It becomes a way of honouring the beauty found in everyday work and the quiet rituals that sustain it. Like the farmers who spend months preparing for a single day of celebration, our weaving practice is shaped by patience and care — a reminder that gratitude, like making, is something cultivated over time.

Frame dimensions: 380mm wide, 380mm height
Frame depth: 40mm

Entirely handwoven by Kass Hernandez on Wangal Land, Australia.

Materials include GOTS Organic cotton, linen, bamboo, Merino wool, banana silk, mohair, Alpaca, handspun and hand-dyed artisan Merino wool, sari silk, metallic thread, felt and vintage leather.