The other week I got the opportunity to talk about ’Smart Textiles for kids and youths’ with a group of Municipality Heads of Art, Culture & Leisure. It was great to hear their positive feedback towards my newly started initiative of introducing Smart Textile Materials to schools and nurseries. I gave the workshop ’Smarta Textilier: En intro till Smart Textiles & ett …
I am happy to announce that I will run a new Vävpoesi-event. The collective weave will be continued so more viewpoints can be added to the textile grid. Came and shared your messages and express your thoughts on september 11th between 17:00-23:00 on Kulturnatten at Stenkrossen, Lund. What do you want to say in relation to ‘Solidarity, Equal Value and Natural Affiliation’ (gemenskap, lika värde och självklar tillhörighet) …
I have started working on a new project, which involves thermochromic yarns. I have therefore started experimenting with different ways of colouring/dyeing untreated yarn to provide the thermochromic effect, since pre-coloured thermochromic yarn is not something that can be found on the market today. These initial tests that I am sharing on the blog today are treated by screen printing the thermochromic …
Play with thermochromics and lots of excitement: a perfect way of describing my two workshops last week. I held a workshop at a nursery on Wednesday and Friday. The workshop was called ’Smart Textillek för Små’ (‘Smart Textile Play for Wee Ones’), and was aimed at children between 3-6 years. The children got to work with and discuss the concepts of temperature, hot and cold, colour …
It was International Yarnbombing Day this Saturday just past and of course this is something worthy of celebration ! So my family and I went to Ystad to take part in tagging their market square, through the event ’Sätta färg på Stortorget i Ystad’. I love the idea of Yarnbombing or Yarn Graffiti, to allow for the public and the more traditional domestic sphere …
This and last week have had lots of days in the print lab – and I love it! I really enjoy entering that almost meditative colour-mixing state, when your are printing new samples. All you need to focus on are; colours, tints and shades. I can see what goes well with what, what expressions in the colour change I want to create – a …
Thanks to everyone who came and shared your messages and expressed your thoughts about ’Solidarity, Equal Value and Natural Affiliation’ (gemenskap, lika värde och självklar tillhörighet) at LundaPride and Stenkrossen last weekend. What a great day it was! – with lots of celebration and party-mood. Together, we created a substantial bit of Vävpoesi (Poetic Weaving). And YEAY to all you first-time weavers that had a …
Lots and lots and lots of strips of old clothes… this is parts of the result of yesterday’s work. I have been cutting and tearing strips so that you all can come and create some Vävpoesi (Poetic weaving) through writing on and weaving in these strips into the collective weave at Stenkrossen at LundaPride this Saturday. I like re-using material. …
Den 21 maj på Lund Pride är ni alla välkomna och skapa kollektiv vävpoesi med mig på Stenkrossen i Lund. Workshopen ”Vävpoesi – ett kollektivt textilt tankeuttryck” är kostnadsfri, det är bara att dyka upp, workshopen är så klart för alla (man behöver inte kunna väva för att vara med, jag finns på plats och visar hur man gör). ”Vävpoesi” …