A century of monastic craft, retold in dyed silk and tied by a single hand. Each komboskini is a slow object, knotted in 33, 50, 100, to be lived with. Our first edition arrives next year.
The komboskini is older than fashion. For a thousand years it has been knotted by the patient, prayed by the devout, and pocketed by the wise. We will make it the way it was always made, by hand, in silence, one cross-knot after another, and we choose silk because silk holds light the way the Aegean holds it.
Every piece in the Kobos first edition will be signed and numbered. None will be repeated. None will be rushed.
Six silks. Six prayers. The drawings below are studies for our first edition. Each piece will be tied in a single sitting when production begins.
Our founder learned the cross-knot in the quiet of Greek monasteries, sitting beside monks who tied them as easily as they breathed. From Mount Athos to Meteora, from the cells of Patmos to small chapels in the Peloponnese, the same gesture is repeated: finger over thumb, seven crosses inside one. Konstantinos has spent years gathering this knowledge, and Kobos is the work that follows.
We intend to use only mulberry silk, dyed by hand with plant pigments: pomegranate rind, indigo leaf, Persian saffron, oak gall. Until the first edition is ready, every piece is being designed, refined, and prepared with patience.