The Sava Blanket

Students found inspiration for their collection of blankets in the Sava River. Blankets were created during the pandemic and self-isolation, so they mostly consist of recycled textile pieces, discarded or found objects, and recycled clothing. Time-appropriate, the pieces are transformed into unique entities with various hand techniques such as embroidery, weaving, felting, dyeing and hand printing.

Textiles are dyed in a home pot, sewn on a home sewing machine, with grandmother's thread, cut with grandfather's scissors, filled with fluff from my mother's old pillow, and somewhere in a special place there is a little sand with a memory of the beach by the Sava river where father and mother bathed when they were still freshly in love students. Through textile surfaces, people have always told each other family stories. On the stove, wrapped in a warm, soft blanket, they nurtured such a very important sense of security and connectedness. Something that is so much needed every time, even today.