Atelier : Dessiner et écrire avec du fil

Faced with the feeling of collective helplessness, this project proposes a simple and concrete action: repair.

Inspired by Japanese boro, a popular technique of textile repair and reuse, the collective work is made from worn clothes, scraps and salvaged fabrics.

Each participant learns a useful gesture: mending, applying a patch, embroidering a word, reinforcing a fabric. Modest gestures, reproducible in everyday life, which extend the lifespan of clothing and question our relationship with consumption.

Through needle and thread, each person inscribes an intention, a word or a symbol into the very material of the work. Boro becomes here a metaphor for activism.

In the workshop Dessiner et écrire avec du fil, children discover the basics of sewing through embroidery on perforated cardboard.

Handling the needle, understanding the thread, building a pattern. This learning lays the foundation for useful gestures they can reuse later to repair and transform their clothes.

A workshop that reminds us that needlework, often invisibilized and devalued, is political, because it questions gender norms, values marginalized know-how, and becomes an engaged means of expression.