blue jeans

patchwork
95 x 95 cm
2022

Materials provided by Enschede Textielstad, Officina+39, and Soorty.

As a famous ad from the 1970s proclaimed, 'You can go anywhere in Levi's,' a statement that remains true today. But how is it that jeans can simultaneously express our individuality while also being a universal mass commodity?"

To find answers, I decided to dive deeper into jeans’ materiality. Wanting to know what makes denim fabric so versatile, attractive, and full of possibilities, I cut patches from discarded denim products and started, quite literally, unraveling them. Some yarns were brittle and frizzy, others were thick, straight, or elastic. Afterwards, I used weaving, knotting, and sewing techniques to reconnect the different patches, in ways suited to their particular material quality.

Photos of the patchwork, process and finalized result, and Levi’s ads (sources: Ebay, Pinterest).

contact

message me
instagram

about

I am a textile artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. Through my work runs a tangible thread spun from questions about materials, patterns, hierarchies, histories and traditions.

read more | commissioned projects