WEAVING FROM WASTE
Frame weaving with Maria Sigma
This workshop which will teach you all the basics of frame weaving and how to turn your household waste textiles from old T-shirts to pillowcases into textile masterpieces.
The class is designed to give to students a thorough and intensive grounding in hand-weaving. Participants will learn foundational weaving skills, such as warping and basic weaving techniques and patterns, and finishing techniques. The aim of the class is to not only cover a range of styles but also encourage students to develop their own distinctive voice as a weaver.
No previous knowledge needed.
Maximum 15
I do believe that we need more weavers in this world and definitely less waste and more creative
Materials:
A small wooden frame loom and weaving tools are provided and for students to take home in a cotton tote bag. Materials and yarns will be also provided, but feel free to bring your own textiles/clothes to recycle - tablecloths, bed sheets, pillowcases, and T-shirts, or materials (yarns, ribbons, strings).
Final project: your own art piece.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost per person: 150 €
About the tutor
Maria Sigma is an award-winning textile designer / weaver specialising in 'zero waste ethical hand-woven textiles. She studied at Chelsea College of Art & Design and since she graduated in 2014, she has developed her own weaving practice in London. She has now a studio in East London and one in Athens.
By using exceptional natural materials Maria creates textiles and artworks for projects large and small, commercial and residential. So far, she has collaborated with interior designers, architects, fashion designers, furniture makers, magazines, brands and galleries such as Susie Atkinson Interior Design Studio, MAKE Hauser & Wirth Somerset Gallery, Hole & Corner Magazine, J.M. Szymanski | New York, Soho House, Selfridges, TOAST, COS, H.J. Hakimian Gallery, The New Craftsmen, Jonathan Tuckey Design, Conran Design, and Rockwell Group, among others. Inspired by her Greek heritage, in combination with love for math and craftsmanship, she makes vibrant, but minimal, contemporary textiles. She strives to decrease to the minimum yarn waste and unnecessary cuts, carbon footprints, the use of machinery, water and electricity. By adhering to a ‘zero waste’ philosophy, she aspires to make hand-weaving an even more sustainable craft. Through 'zero waste' design and craftsmanship and by emphasising the texture and the raw state of the cloth, and removing any superfluous elements. Maria aims at producing honest textiles designed to become timeless heirlooms. She is the author of Writer of Weaving: the Art of Sustainable Textile Creation and instructor of Weaving From Waste Workshop.
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