Design Prediction: Macrame!

During a recent conversation about the cyclical nature of design (both for home and fashion) we predicted that macrame was due for a comeback...are we ahead of the curve or crazy? Will it follow knitting and sewing as the next crafting phenomenon to resurface? Are you ready for some jute and hemp at home? Survey below the jump...

Shown above:

Hoffer Plan-O-Spider Chairs with Macrame seats, France, 1958, estimate $1000. to 1500.

Choker by Hemp Creations, $20

Hanging Macrame/Wicker Basket, $3.

Comments (20)

I have a macrame hanging table that my college roommate made for me almost 30 years ago. Maybe it's time to take it out of the box and use it!

It may come back ... but I sure hope it doesn't.
It made me feel somehow uncomfortable even then!

those chairs are rad, but i can do without all the hanging hemp!

Having already lived through the macrame craze, all I can tell you is RUN, RUN screaming from the stuff.

Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought we were well past 1977!!!!!

I dislike macrame more than I dislike wicker, and I dislike wicker a whole hell of a lot.

i suspect it will return as a craft trend, like knitting and quilting, but i really really hope that such trends will not be surfacing as a DIY home decorating scheme because it is tends to be too precious, and, really, quite ugly...

Objectively speaking, yeah macrame is ugly, but I love it because of all the childhood memories it evokes. My mom was very big into macrame, and I used to be so fascinated by all the hanging baskets, purses, etc. she would make. She loved to incorporate lots of beads into her work. I used to get so excited when she would take me to the craft store to help her pick out beads. One of my prized possessions is a beaded macrame purse she made for me (you know, with the wooden handles). I loved growing up in the 70's!!

If macrame comes back, it won't be in the exact same form as it was in the '70s. Granted, a few people might dig out the ol' hemp owl wall decor, but I think the crafsters of today will add their own twist to it. I think that black choker featured in the photo above is a great example because it's macrame, but it doesn't look like stereotypical, old-fashioned macrame.

Martha Stewart STILL wears black on the anniversary of the day my sister learned how to tie a knot in cheap jute.
We all do. It was a sad, sad, day and the effects (gack) lingered for years.

I loved my ol' hemp owl wall decor.

HA! My roommate is a big craft and fashion person and has been incorporating macrame into her work for the last year or so. The thing is, it actually works!

See for yourself: http://www.myspace.com/elspethvance

one time was enough for me too!

i think it'll come back differently, obv. More modern, more abstract. I mean, string art came back recently already--another childhood craft--but if those damn multi-layer paper decoupage holly hobbie plaques come back I'll be very upset.

LOL holly hobbie. ho, that takes me back!

My Mum had a hanging basket like the one above but it was double tier - she hung it from a white decorative wall bracket meant for outside hanging baskets - but in the bathroom and filled it with toiletries - it actually worked great and looked pretty cool in that context

But that time has gone - please don't bring macrame back!!!