The workshop is an invitation to slow down, to gently return attention to the body, the breath, and the material we will feel beneath our fingers. Through folding, layering, trimming, and assembling various pieces of fabric, natural materials, images, and small personal traces, we will map our feelings — those that permeate our everyday existence or are carried within the objects of our memories, as well as those that arise in the present moment in relation to the space and the other participants. We will awaken tactility by touching the soil, surrender through intuitive brushstrokes, and seek pathways by following our inner rhythm. Over the course of three days of collective creation, a temporary, living space will emerge — a space where individual and collective gestures are inscribed, built, transformed — unfolding, expanding, pulsing, reconfiguring — and ultimately dissolving. The circle, as a symbol of wholeness and a space of support, represents a shared communal ground in which the creative process also becomes a form of care. The workshop is suitable for all levels of experience.
The mentors are last year’s participants of the ReThread 2025 programme. Editta Dulič is a textile and fashion designer and a postgraduate student of art therapy at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek. Through textile quilts, she explores the therapeutic potential of handwork, touch, and repetition, developing them as functional and emotionally supportive objects that foster calmness, a sense of safety, inner balance, and psychosocial wellbeing. Tea Pristolič is an architect who contributes to building a more inclusive society through the design and leadership of cultural, sustainable, and socially impactful projects, as well as mindful creative workshops. Through an intuitive painting practice and deep connection with nature, she explores diverse creative sources and pathways toward understanding the multilayered nature of inner landscapes, relationships, and subtle dimensions of being.
More information on ReThread 2026:
https://layer.si/bien/en/kr/rethread2026/
Portraits: Personal Archive of Mentors. Photo of Tea Pristolič and hands on the three trunk: Fernanda Prado Verčič