Atelier : Histoires textiles

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. You will learn 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. Inspired by arpilleras, this workshop proposes creating with the child you accompany a small textile picture from salvaged fabrics. Assembling, cutting, gluing, sewing: little by little, the textile fragments turn into a narrative.

You will experience reuse as a realm of imagination and discover that creating from existing materials is already an act of activism.

A 4-hand workshop to share between you and the child you accompany. Anyone taking part in the workshop must book a place (children and accompanying adults).