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Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? Join the Textiles & Materiality research cluster for the Merit of Making Workshop. Led by Gen Moisan, this workshop will give you the opportunity to create your own unique embroidered patches while exploring its rich history and cultural significance.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
You will learn to produce an embroidered patch on the Tajima Embroidery Machine, including how to integrate different textures and embroidery stitches within your design.
Embroidered patches have a long and rich history cross-culturally, functioning as symbols of status, achievement, and identity within communities. In this workshop, we invite you to consider what skills and statuses are undervalued within contemporary society. How can a merit badge bring attention to invisible, unseen, or otherwise unappreciated forms of knowledge?
Participants will learn design techniques and software basics, required to embroider different shapes, textures, and images, in order to make their own merit badges using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. The workshop will be 2 hours long, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs.
: October 11, 2024 | 1:30 – 4 PM
: EV 10.725
Registration is Required! Please send an e-mail to textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register for the workshop. Registration on a first-come, first-served basis