January 15, 2022 | Noon
Learn the basics of visible mending. Your stitches and patches show to make the fabric strong and add a beautiful design element. Discover the stitches and materials that make your visible mending a success. Bring something to be mended. But don’t let a lack of a torn garment stop you. There will be extra garments for your workshop use. Bring a small assortment of your favorite threads, yarns, and fabrics, a small embroidery hoop, scissors, and needles. There will be lots of samples and extra clothing with rips to mend as well as some fabrics, threads, needles, and hoops.
The workshop is in conjunction with the exhibition Mending the Social Fabric and will begin with a brief tour. Masks and vaccination card required!
About Mending the Social Fabric: OJMCHE’s exhibition Mending the Social Fabric by textile artist Bonnie Meltzer has at its core a parachute with a 314-foot circumference that is encircled by 75 handkerchiefs embroidered with text that amplifies the mending motif. Mounted behind the parachute are textiles from across the globe. The parachute, a symbol of safety, has rips and tears and over the course of the exhibition interactive community building happens as visitors sit and mend the damage.