Textiles arts activity is a powerful tool for us to break barriers, meet each other and tell our stories.
Participatory Textiles
The projects explore community co-creation, individual creative health, collective reflection and commemoration.
Processes are varied to provide broad engagement opportunities for communities.
Access and dexterity needs are always taken into account. Every project begins with connection and conversation facilitated by hands on sessions.
‘Ein Milltir Sgwar’ 2022
Funded by Arts Council of Wales
Commemorative
textile work to remember the life and loss of a Welsh Primary School in post industrial mining village, Cwmgors.
Engaging
the community in the building’s next incarnation: zero-carbon Arts Centre ‘Hwb y Gors’ as developed by local renewable energies company, Awel Aman Tawe.
Workshops
included local area walks, natural dyeing workshops capturing the colour palette found in the mountain landscape, collagraphy, cyanotype printmaking and embroidery inviting participants to reflect on memories.
‘Cook Bag’ 2024
Funded by Royal Academy of Arts
Skills share
global citizenship and cultural exchange with SAFE Foundation Wales & WCDT Tamil Nadu, India.
Volunteers
aged under 25 from across Wales were facilitated to collaborate across two weeks with the project beneficiaries: local women of the Dalit community,
Recycled
bedsheets and local natural insulation material were used to cut and stitch 20 fabric cookbags that use only residual heat from a pot of boiling food to keep cooking, supporting health, and reducing reliance on expensive firewood.