Secret Lentil is artist-made clothing:
Unique deconstructed / recycled pieces
plus limited-run original designs.
Austere and darkly funny – earthy,
geeky + sculptural, with punkish undertones.
Sometimes freak-ish, always comfortable.
I'm Helen Carter.
Each Secret Lentil piece is designed and hand made by me.

My work is intuitive. I create through my own process of fabric alchemy: it is not traditional sewing and these are not traditional clothes. What they are is unusual, durable, comfortable, flexible, funky, fun, solid, freaky, geeky, earthy, and mildly addicting. So Secret Lentil is a line of clothing - and then again, no, it really isn't. It's more like an art project that produces clothes - unusual, artistic clothes, made with an emphasis on recycled fabrics. It's probably shaped more like a spiral than a line, just as I am more of a sculptor than a seamstress.

It all happens in a big drafty warehouse studio in Syracuse NY. You can visit me! I have a dressing room and racks of clothes for you to shop from. And mildly sloppy grammar.