Reweaving & Unpicking – Lieke Wouters, Matilda Kenttä
Saturday 15th June 2024
Location: De Steek
During this session participants deconstructed (and reconstructed) their understanding of textile crafts, in particular weaving and knitting.
Starting with a reading session led by Lieke Wouters, we widened our view of technology. Focusing on excerpts of texts by Ursula K. Le Guin and Sadie Plant, we discussed technology’s connection to textiles and crafting. Furthermore, we speculated on why knitting especially has been left out of this discussion. How could hand knitting be looked at from a technological perspective?
This was followed by a reweaving workshop led by Matilda Kenttä, where together participants unraveled a rag-rug from Matilda’s hometown in Sweden. Rag-rugs were traditionally made of cut-up scraps of old clothing and domestic textiles, together we speculated on the stories and histories embedded in the materia, whilst reimagining the possibilities of this material.