Styrian Summer Art: Mended History: Embroidered, mended, and somehow woven toget
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Workshop Description:
We wear our clothes like a second skin, and textile favorites are part of our identity and personality. Children's clothes, grandpa's sweater, the favorite jeans where many beautiful moments were experienced—it's hard to let go of them...
The workshop is about stories of textiles that are lovingly repaired so that the emotional connection to them is expressed. We will intensively engage with various embroidery and darning techniques, including Japanese Sashiko, Boro, as well as Swiss and Scottish Darning. Together, we will find the most suitable technique for each piece. This way, we achieve a connection between traditional handwork techniques and contemporary interpretation, as well as an experimental yet sustainable approach to textile materials.
A workshop for everyone who enjoys working with textiles and wants to experiment with different techniques, and for whom a sustainable approach to fashion is a concern.
Here are photos from the Atelier Class 2025!
To get in the mood, I can recommend the book by Orsola de Castro: "Beloved Things" - Why Sustainable Fashion Makes Us Happy. (Dörlemann Verlag)
Please bring:
- Clothing, textiles that you want to darn, embroider, and redesign. For Sashiko and Boro, jeans are the best option, especially for beginners. A maximum of 3 pieces that are particularly dear to you.
- Marking pens, can be ironed away, or tailor's chalk, scissors, seam ripper, triangular ruler, circle templates
- Sewing or darning needles with and without a point, pins
- Fine crochet hooks and thin, short knitting needles
- Baste thread, embroidery, darning, wool yarn in all forms and colors, buttonhole silk, any special thread can be used.
- For Sashiko and Boro, thin cotton crochet yarn (thickness 0.7 – 1.0) is best, in white, natural white, but also colored.
- Fabric scraps, as many different colors, materials, and structures as possible, for patches or to try out stitches
- Iron-on interfacing (batiste interfacing)
- Darning egg or darning mushroom, possibly embroidery hoop. Thimble – optional
If necessary, a magnifying lamp can be helpful
There will also be material available for trying out, exchanging, or purchasing.
To get in the mood, I can recommend the book by Orsola de Castro: "Beloved Things" - Why Sustainable Fashion Makes Us Happy. (Dörlemann Verlag)
The Artist:
Anne Neuhauser, born in 1962 in Würzburg, 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 as a lecturer on sustainable handling of textiles and embroidery and darning techniques at various educational institutions (including the University of Art Linz) on a part-time basis.
About the offer
Meeting point
Pöllauer Valley Nature Park
Meeting point 11:00 AM in front of the Pöllau Tourist Office
Price information
380 €
Contact and Arrival
Contact
Styrian Summer Art: Mended History: Embroidered, mended, and somehow woven toget
office@styriansummerart.at Website +43 664 54 04 289Operator
Styrian Summer ArtVerein Styrian Summer Art
Schloss 1,
8225 Pöllau bei Hartberg AT Plan route
