"In my opinion this technique offered something more than traditional painting. It’s the warmth that transmits, there is something magical in the colors. It’s just the material, the wool, when it’s still in its pure state - in flocks or carded already - touching transmits the purity…"(Svetlana Kuliskova)

The particularity of this technique is based on the use of crude Australian pure wool which is manually overlapped and layered by the artist; as it becomes distributed, cut, mixed, wrapped, and ironed, the woolen image changes its shape and colors. It is interesting to observe how the artist creates one definitive composition without the use of a first draft. Sometimes Svetlana, in her work, also uses various textile materials until she obtains a sort of textile collage. The tapestry is held together at one end by a seam (visible from a distance of approximately 50 cm) and the entire surface of the work is held together through the use of one especially constructed machine which gives the work a particular trademark texture. The final tapestry has a canvas behind it which becomes the “lining” on which the brand name ART PROTIS is applied, the name of the artist, the dimensions of the work, the number of the original and the “Molantin” tag which means that the wool has been treated against moths. After the piece is finalized it is signed by the artist.

For four years Svetlana Kuliskova worked as the artistic assistant at the Art Domus Studios in Brno, where in the 1960’s a particular technique known as ART PROTIS was developed and copyrighted. Several prominant Czechoslovak artists at that time gathered at one of the industrial textile factories and acquired the space to create! Something quite incredible during that period of deep comunism which tended to pull down creativity and personal expression. This was all thanks to the director who had a love of art. The contrast between serial fabric production and original artistic creations was also unique. Not to mention the contrast of the delapidated 19th century building and the beauty that was produced within that space. There are only a few artists that have remained faithful to this technique, after the mere demolition of the space; after the arrival of “democracy” a supermarket was built in its place. One of the artists who persisted in this path is Svetlana Kuliskova who learned this technique from her mother. Brno still remains the only place where ART PROTIS tapestries are created.