Black and Natural Wall Decor Plate, 60 cm

Sixty centimetres across, woven from banana leaf, with black worked into the surface in two rings of pointed shapes that radiate out from the centre like a sunburst.

About the size.
At 60 cm she carries a wall on her own. Above a sofa or a console she is enough by herself, which is unusual for a woven piece and is the practical argument for the larger diameter over the smaller. She also works as the centre of a cluster, and the radiating pattern is what makes that work: everything hung around her reads as orbiting rather than scattered.

For a group, mix diameters rather than repeating this one. The 40 cm version of the same plate alongside two or three plainer woven discs is the arrangement that looks composed.

About the pattern.
The black is stitched into the weave rather than printed on, in two concentric rings of elongated points. The contrast is what separates her from a plain natural plate: she reads from the other side of a room, where an undecorated woven disc only reads up close. On a white or beige wall - which is most walls here - she gives the room a dark point to measure everything else against.

How she hangs.
Light for her size, and a single fixing takes her. On masonry use a plug and screw; on plasterboard an adhesive strip will hold, provided the wall is clean, dry and not in afternoon sun.

Indoors or outdoors.
Both. Natural fibre lightens where the sun reaches it, so outdoors the contrast softens a little over the first season and then holds.

Care.
Dust with a soft brush or a vacuum on its lowest setting, going with the weave. Keep her dry.

Good to know

• 60 cm diameter
  
• Woven banana leaf with a stitched black pattern
  
• Large enough to hang on its own
  
• Also available at 40 cm
  
• Indoors or outdoors
  
• Hand-woven, so each piece differs