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Frederiek Simons      artist, weaver, writer
Collective embroidering session. Set-up at the conference. Visitor embroidering on screen printed cloth and two Tracing Aegean Textiles publications. Visitor embroidering on screen printed cloth. Embroidery in process. Embroidery in process. Visitors embroidering on screen printed cloth. Presentation of the Tracing Aegean Textiles archive on an iPad.
In the context of the State of Fashion Biennale held in Arnhem, I presented my research on 17th-19th century textiles from Aegean islands. I screen-printed the traced outlines of the embroideries on cloth and invited visitors to sit down with me and embroider.

︎ Presented at State of Fashion Biennale conference [NL]. ︎ Cloth screen-printed at Kipseli print studio [GR]. ︎ See also: Tracing Aegean Textiles, research.