Textiles for Palestine
This Sunday, a day of textiles and solidarity
THIS SUNDAY 6th JULY
Come together for a day of textiles and fundraising for Palestine with brilliant teacher and artist Caitlin Hinshelwood and Craft Show on Sunday 6th July at Praxis Studios, N16 6UN, North London.
This Sunday only, it’s an amazing opportunity to see this exhibition of textile art from all your favourite sewers, printers, weavers and makers. From banners, patchworks and t-shirts to silk scarves and textile sculptures, we’ve been blown away by the textile response to our call out for work.
You’ll see pieces from Lora Avedian, Aya Haidar, Imogen Denton, Bug Clothing, Cesca Dvorak, Cutts and Sons, Fadhel Mourali, Woo Jin Joo, Papilionaceous Silks and more than 30 other artists and makers. Lots of this work has been made specially for this show, it’ll be your one chance to see it all together and even better, take it home with you.
Most of the textiles in the exhibition will be for sale over the day, with all sales being split between Thamra, Palestine Red Crescent Society and The Tatreez Institute. For this special fundraiser, nothing will be more than £100. It’s a wild chance to own some of your favourite makers work. We can’t wait for you to see.
Alongside the exhibition, there’ll be the most perfect selection of textiles made in Palestine for sale, as well as books from Common Threads Press, badges, pins and perhaps a sweet treat or two.
With the exhibition as your backdrop, join us and make in community.
There’s a rare opportunity to add your stitches to The Grief Quilt, a beautiful project lead by Public Library Quilts and students from UCL that marks grief and resistance with stitches. The quilt will be on show all day ,11.30 - 5.30pm with makers on hand to help you make your additions.
Textile artist Nowshin Prenon will be exploring the colourful textile craft of winding between 12 - 2pm. Nowshin will guide you through creating a small textile artwork in the colours of the Palestine flag to take home with you.
In the afternoon, sit down with textile artists and teachers to make a banner. With plenty of colours, templates, inspiration and materials provided, spend some time making together. No textiles skills needed, banner making is a brilliant way to get involved and use textiles to communicate, show solidarity and resistance.
Tickets from £5 on the door or online and there’s lots more info to come. All profits will be split between Thamra, Palestine Red Crescent Society and The Tatreez Institute.
We’d love to see you there. Please share far and wide. Free Palestine 🕊️
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