In this workshop you will learn more about Romanian heritage and you will pick up thread and needle and learn how to embroider. Your embroidered piece of textile is yours to bring home!
Sewn Signs (Semne Cusute) are a visual, universal language used by women to encode information, express their status and their vision of the world. Embroidery is communication in style. The needle & thread, and the embroidery techniques are something we all could learn, no matter of age, gender, religion or ethnic background – being so much related to math and geometry. So, where can this craft take us to?
Romanian traditional shirts were always about socialising, as it was all about expression. Our Grandmothers embroidered their stories on shirts knowing that an educated public will be able to appreciate it. However, the creative process was intimate, and secret, as their appearance was also meant to impress. Techniques, patterns, combinations – were kept in high secrecy, and in many cases scarcely shared afterwards. Sharing all the stages of the process, with all the explanations is the new start, and a big change of the 21st century.
This workshop is supported by the University of Antwerp / Tracks4Changes