Atelier : La réparation comme acte de résistance

We are made of mending and stitched-together pieces. That is what makes our strength.

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.

During this workshop led by Virginie Carrayol of Atelier Kanine, you will discover a visible repair technique using reused textiles: sashiko, boro, mending, patching, embroidery. An invitation to make every gesture an act of creative resistance.