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Workshops
Weaving workshops in London for adults and kids in groups or one-to-one.
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Weaving workshops in London for adults and kids in groups or one-to-one.
![Useful/Beautiful :: Why Craft Matters? | Is the title of the new exhibition @harewoodhouse and curated by the amazing @hugomacd opening in late March [more details to follow] and in which I will present a few pieces of my work.
Preparing some paperwork for my participation I had to answer this question myself. So here we are:
For me craft is more than just a way of making things; it’s a way of thinking and living in the most sustainable way. Living in a digital era of single-use objects, where people discard things easily, the need for tangible and real materials arises. Craft questions the different processes of dealing with the material world, and it brings back a certain level of human dignity. Craft calms down our high-speed society. In a way, craft is a tool to connect the heritage of the past with our present. Craft can invest a context of regionalism and history to our convenience-based economy. Craft is an event that starts with a physical sense of relationship between materials and people.
Hand-weaving especially - one of the oldest crafts, like a portal to past eras and candlelit work environments, brings back a long- forgotten, almost romantic, collaboration of the body and the mind, and a relationship between the domesticity and the creativity.
We love each other more through the beauty we create. Hand-crafted goods remind us how and why we are human - they carry a story, maker’s personality and the emotional state of their creator. Often on hand-woven textiles are visible sings of rest pauses where the weaver has taken a break from the loom, something which otherwise is an industrial defect becomes a detail we empathise with.
Passed on from one generation to another, textile heirlooms become narrative objects of a great sentimental value, which encompass a particular sense of belonging for me: feeling at home.
Why craft matters to you?
Photo: NEW throw on the loom - made with natural undyed British alpaca + wool. Will be exclusively available to buy @maiyet 18-23 February @harveynichols](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568a8db5d8af102bf3edc841/58309510bebafb6e0f50cd9b/5c5a1973a8ab5a3ac75dd936/1549408631672/)
