Lisa Corti was born in Eritrea, Eastern Africa, and grew up in a village immersed in citrus groves and mango fields on the pristine shores of the Anseba river, surrounded by granite mountains on all sides. In the market-stalls of her home-town, she came across Indian fabrics and patterns, and soon developed an instinct for color. It was a trip to India a few years later that brought her back to her childhood memories of colors and textures, and eventually led her to create a very personal line of textiles that combined her African sensibility, her European culture and her understanding of Indian techniques.