tracing aegean textiles

publication*, embroidery
2021—2022

*Self-published in small edition, 21 x 15 cm (16 pages).

This research asks the question how we could trace and care for marginalised art forms. This question is explored within the context of 18th and 19th century embroideries from the Aegean islands. After reading the available literature on the topic and scrolling through thousands of pages from digitalized archives, I still had so many questions about these embroideries. To get closer to their histories, I picked up a black marker and began tracing their outlines. In this slow act of reanimation and care I created a publication and printed the designs on cloth.

At the State of Fashion Biennale conference 2022, I invited visitors to join me in embroidering the fabric, continuing the work together.

Photos of the publication. Combined with photos from the live embroidery session.

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Textile artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. I work with textiles and other material forms as a way of thinking and researching. I thereby treat these materials as tools to expose and unsettle taken-for-granted views and naturalized routines of daily life.

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