While exploring the technique of textile tufting, students discovered numerous possibilities for manipulating the textile surface, which they skillfully tuned through diverse colour palettes of selected patterns and motifs. These patterns emerged from the exploration of the significance of the sun and its influence on folklore, the fauna, and the park. The interaction between humans and animals is a return to a primal experience in today’s world, an opportunity to understand our origins and impact on the living world. Exploitation of animals, the concrete jungle, crowds of people, animal visitors in the city, futuristic domination of nature, and genuine childlike wonderment of life are the themes that inspired students to materialize tufted textiles. Using sheep wool as the basic building block of textiles, students hand-dyed it with food scraps. They skillfully combined delicate, naturally derived colour tones with vibrant colour combinations of other yarns and they were “drawing” on the textile surface, which grew into a three-dimensional form and gave rise to sculptures and functional objects.
Photo: Maša Pirc / BIEN
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