Textile memories - Visible Mending with Anne Neuhauser

Termin:
Fr., 27.06.2025 bis So., 29.06.2025

Dauer:
3 Days

Zeiten:
9 bis 18 Uhr; inkl. 2 Std. lunch break

Ort:
Nature park Pöllauer Tal
Meeting point 9:00 Uhr in front of the tourist office Pöllau

Zielgruppe:
Beginners, (moderately) advanced; adults, young people aged 13 and over; suitable for people with disabilities

Workshop description:

Textile Memories - Visible Mending: Creating textiles sustainably into individual mementos and artistic favourites.

In this workshop we will take an intensive look at a wide variety of embroidery and darning techniques, including Japanese Sashiko, Boro, as well as Swiss and Scottish Darning. We will learn and apply the most suitable techniques for each piece. The history of the textile will also be included in our repairs, both with needle and thread and in words. In this way, we will succeed in combining traditional handicraft techniques with artistic, contemporary interpretation and the experimental use of textile materials.

Visible Mending is currently on everyone's lips, and with good reason. After all, it can make clothes wearable for longer and contribute to the reduction of mass and cheap production in the fashion industry. It also demonstrates an attitude that values and even emphasises signs of wear, imperfection and life.

In Japan, this is practised as Wabi Sabi and Mottainai, the philosophy of the natural and simple, as well as the regret that something is wasted.

Please bring along:

Clothing, textiles that you want to darn, embroider and redesign. Jeans are best suited for Sashiko and Boro, especially for beginners. A maximum of 3 pieces that are particularly important to you.

Marker pens, iron-on or tailor's chalk
Scissors, cutting knife, triangle, circle templates
Sewing or darning needles with and without point, pins
Fine crochet hooks and thin, short knitting needles
Basting thread, embroidery and darning yarn in all shapes and colours
Buttonhole floss, any special thread can be used.
Thin cotton crochet thread (0.7 - 1.0), white, natural white, but also coloured, is best suited for sashiko and boro.

Scraps of fabric, as many different colours, materials and textures as possible, for patches or to try out stitches
A fusible interfacing (batiste interfacing)darning egg or darning sponge, possibly embroidery hoop.thimble - optionalIf necessary, a magnifying lamp can be helpful

There will also be material to try out, swap or buy, and I can recommend the book by Orsola de Castro: ‘Geliebte Sachen’ - Warum nachhaltige Kleidung uns glücklich macht. (Dörlemann Verlag).

Price:

€ 380,-

Workshop leader

Anne Neuhauser, born in Würzburg in 1962, has lived in Salzburg for many years. Studied English and Slavic Studies (Mag.phil. 1992) and Psychology (MSc 2023), numerous study visits to learn textile techniques in Japan (Sashiko, Boro, Shibori), Taiwan and the Philippines (weaving and primary techniques), India (embroidery). Since 2019 she has been working part-time as a lecturer for sustainable handling of textiles and embroidery and darning techniques at various educational institutions (including the University of Art and Design Linz).

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