Que Onda Vos
Hanne De Wyngaert is a Belgian designer and the founder of Que Onda Vos, a practice connecting contemporary design with traditional craftsmanship in Guatemala. Trained in fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, she established the label in 2013 to explore a more considered relationship between designing, making and consuming. Her work encompasses handwoven rugs, textiles and recycled glassware, developed with local artisans. Through these collaborations, Hanne brings her approach to colour, pattern and form into dialogue with generations of craft knowledge, creating objects grounded in an exchange between people, materials and cultures.
THE PROCESS
Hanne’s process is built around collaboration with the people who make each piece. Working directly with weaving families and associations in Guatemala, she develops designs through an exchange between her visual ideas and the artisans’ knowledge of materials and techniques. This relationship extends from the initial concept to the finished object, with an emphasis on fair remuneration and the continuity of local craft traditions.
For the wool textiles, making begins with locally sourced sheep’s wool, spun by hand and dyed before being woven on traditional foot looms. Natural dyes are used wherever possible, while variations in the yarn and colour give each textile its individual character. Hanne explores pattern through both colour and construction. In Bat’z Petate, a main woven rug is combined with twenty-three separately woven strips, braided into a texture inspired by traditional petate mats and hand-stitched together. The surface becomes a record of several distinct stages of handwork.
Her glassware follows a related approach to material and making. Designed in Belgium and handblown by artisans in Guatemala, the vessels use recycled and repurposed glass. Subtle differences in colour and dimensions remain part of each piece. Across these different crafts, Hanne’s role is to connect contemporary uses with established skills, creating opportunities for those traditions to develop through continued practice.
