About LUMBRO
What is Lumbro Studio
Lumbro Studio is a creative lab where design is lived as a process — not only a final result.
The studio creates textile pieces — rugs, wall panels, and soft objects — made for real life: changing, imperfect, emotional. Lumbro isn’t chasing “perfect”; it’s chasing honesty: texture, character, and presence.
Designing experiences through textiles
Lumbro designs rugs and textile pieces for real life — for entryways, living rooms, bedside moments, reading corners, and textured wall art. They are living territories where things happen: arriving home, taking shoes off, sitting on the floor, sharing a conversation, playing, resting, leaving a trace.
Each piece is shaped around everyday contact: texture, density, edges, and honest finishes made to support movement and use. They are not objects to be feared or kept perfect — they are surfaces for connection. Over time they take the shape of the people who live with them — marks, memory, story — and that’s when they stop being “new” and start feeling truly yours.
Beyond textiles, Lumbro also explores furniture and interior objects — combining handmade surfaces with simple forms to create functional pieces with warmth and identity.
A studio that evolves
Lumbro evolves because life evolves. Over time it has taken different forms — photography, graphic design, material exploration, and learning new techniques. The thread has always been the same: using hands, body, and senses as a way into design. This is a kinesthetic approach: design understood as movement, emotion, and presence.
How Lumbro pieces are made — tufting
Lumbro pieces are created through tufting: a technique where yarn is pushed through a stretched fabric using a tufting gun (a handheld tool), forming thousands of loops or cut strands that build the pile — the soft, tactile surface. It’s like drawing with fiber: shapes appear line by line, layer by layer, until the design becomes texture. After tufting, each piece is finished by hand — trimming for definition, backing for structure and durability, and edge work to help it hold its shape over time.
Who’s behind it
Behind Lumbro is Carolina. She was born in Argentina and trained academically as an Industrial Designer. While living through the intensity of university, she didn’t always see how complex that path was — she was simply drawn to the most honest kind of creativity: simple processes rooted in everyday life.
Throughout her studies, she kept diving into different materialities and making processes — experimenting, testing, and learning by doing. After graduating, and recognising her way of thinking as naturally multidisciplinary, she continued her education with postgraduate study in Innovative Process Design.
That journey shaped a core belief: trial and error is valid. There is no “mistake” without intention, and the experience of testing and learning is essential to understanding any process. There isn’t only one path — just as there isn’t only one possible material for making.
While her original training focused on product design, her curiosity always expanded into other dimensions of design: graphic design, technical and organisational thinking, process design, and even building mind-maps and diagrams to understand tools, machines, and systems. Later, in New Zealand and Australia — working across different fields — that idea became even clearer: design shows up in daily life in deeply multidisciplinary ways.
At Lumbro, that becomes something simple: life itself is a design lab. Being creative every day can mean choosing the attitude you begin with, what you make, how you work, who you share with, and how you grow through change. Lumbro invites people to design their own experience and live with pieces that feel aligned — where the path, the process, is part of the outcome.
How textiles became the centre
Tufting began as a hobby and became a starting point — but it didn’t come from nowhere. Lumbro carries a family imprint that cannot be separated from making: yarn passed hand to hand, a mother’s knitting machine, crochet, two-needle knitting, grandmothers and aunts, and childhood memories of untangling knots in the middle of conversation.
That history left a trace that eventually took shape in this project. For that reason, each textile piece at Lumbro also works as a ritual — a way to bring something personal into the light, honour it, and give it value.
No two pieces are identical because making is alive: pressure shifts, speed changes, the rhythm of the day moves through the hands. “Imperfection” isn’t a flaw — it’s a human mark, proof of presence and time placed with intention.
The meaning of “Lumbro”
“Lumbro” is inspired by the Spanish idea of bringing light — making visible what often stays in the background: an emotion, a memory, a corner of a home, an everyday moment. That is the studio’s intention: to create textiles that don’t simply “decorate”, but accompany real life and make it more liveable; pieces that invite people to step in, stay, share, and leave a trace — until a space feels like home.