Milla Novo

Milla Novo is a Netherlands-based fibre artist working with hand-knotted textiles, creating large-scale wall hangings and immersive installations for interiors, architecture and public spaces. Her studio near Amsterdam makes every piece by hand, often in close collaboration with collectors, architects and cultural partners.

Born to Chilean parents, Novo draws on her Mapuche heritage and on the weaving practice of her mother, reinterpreting ancestral patterns in a contemporary knotted language. Alongside natural fibres she works with custom-developed metallic ropes; recent outdoor work for the Tanweer Festival in the Mleiha Desert, Sharjah, pushed the technique toward weather-resistant materials.