About the Event:
Historically, many cultures viewed the creation of textiles, crafts and garments as sacred activities that held vast importance for the well-being of the community. The process of creating textiles was seen as mythological, a process of preserving sacred knowledge as threads were woven into the past, then to the sacred object in the present, and into future worlds. During these creation processes, women would share their dreams and whisper prayers, symbolically weaving these into materials.

In our fast-paced world, where so much is continually demanded from us, we are gathering to slow down and connect in a collective ritual. Our workshop host, the fashion-textile designer, researcher and educator Ania Zoltkowski, will introduce us to the sacred origins of embroidery. We will work with the technique to stitch our desires, wishes and intentions into being. The workshop builds on the theme of our current print edition, Love Ethic, and we will reflect upon what love has to do with textiles, crafts, and communal making. 

This is not a step-by-step class that teaches you how to stitch. This is an inclusive space in which we connect through making. Everyone is welcome and invited to stitch intuitively. The best way to learn to stitch is just by doing it, so we invite you to come along and just give it a go. All that is required is a curiosity to connect to materials and processes.

The Workshop Fee Includes (all materials are provided, and you will be able to take these home with you):
• Wooden embroidery hoop.
• Embroidery needle.
• Embroidery threads.
• Fabric to embroider upon.
• Tea and snacks.

Please Bring:
• A journal and something to write with.

About Ania Zoltkowski:

The event is a collaboration between the Lissome and Ania Zoltkowski, a pluriversal fashion-textile designer, visionary, educator, and researcher. Her work focuses on creating regenerative fashion-textile futures by integrating holistic, autonomous, place-based and relational ways of enquiring about and creating clothing and materials.