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We are Arot and we make new tools for knitting
The aroT products ….
knitting is good for ….
Are thought and made by hand in Barcelona, with natural materials and sustainable crops. Artisan products for the artisans that we all carry inside.
When we weave, we are working the hands and the brain, with them, we reinforce our creativity, we improve the control of our hands and we have the satisfaction of a job well done.
As William Morris believed, a hand-made work produces pleasure and satisfaction for those who create it, while mechanized work is repetitive and blocks any creative freedom. And maybe, we’re not so far from that time …
In this world as globalized, as fast and as digital as ours, it is good to disconnect from time to time and recover what we have left along the way, those skills that are still in our hands and that the modern world despises.
Thin psychomotility
When we make small movements, with hands, fingers, wrists … we are using the motor functions that we call fine and that are taken for granted, as if they were instinctive, of birth, and that we all know from the first day.
But the reality is that they brought us years of learning,
It is not until 6-12 years, that we can manage to control them completely and not everyone reaches the same level of precision. That’s why it’s so important that when we are very young, and we are learning, we do manual work and we move, because like that, we can achieve maximum control, because …
With movement, you learn the movement.
But we also run the risk of losing this important learning, over the years, if we do not practice them or if we have any injury or illness and this is where we can keep and recover, “remembering” everything we already know.
Three words we recommend:
learn, keep and recover
And it is through these three words that we have developed our tools.