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Creative embroidery

Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines

Cecilia KOPPMANN

Workshop topic: Contemporary hand sewing

Languages:

Nb of students: 15

If you like working with your hands, this is the course for you. We will divide the course into two parts:

1-MENDING OLD CLOTHES:
In today’s society, learning the art of visible mending goes beyond economic necessity. It’s an expression of our commitment to sustainability and a rejection of senseless consumerism.
During the first part of the course, we’ll make a sample with many different repairs, with yarn: using many different stitches and weaves, with yarn and fabric with many options, putting fabric over or under, with and without patchwork. I’ll show you many options that will encourage you to mend even fabrics that shouldn’t be mended!

2-BROIDING BEES AND FLOWERS with wool
During part 2 of the course, we’ll embroider various flowers, leaves and bees, while learning a variety of stitches such as chain stitch, hem stitch, back stitch, buillion knot, French knot, bridge knot and fly stitch.

Where: ancien lycée, 3 rue Osmont, 68160 Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines | Room 1

List of supplies

thimble
fabric scissors

Required supplies

Embroidery hoop
Frixion Ball Pen
Wool for embroidery
Wool embroidery needle

Fabrics to bring + lengh

Worn clothing to mend, or a piece of denim
A piece of panama (embroidery fabric) with wool

Kit
+ Content

Optional kit :

Kit 1 15 € : Piece of denim 20 x 30 cm, thimble, needle. Embroidery threads and fabrics
Kit 2 25 € : Merino wool yarns in 8 colors, panama fabric 25 x 35 cm, pattern, wool needle

The teacher

Cecilia KOPPMANN

The dyeing of fabrics is an initial and fundamental part of Cecilia Koppmann's creative process. It is the moment to unfold scales, ranges, shades.
Then she cuts, discards, arranges, gathers, opposes, separates, sews in an improvised and almost frantic way. She looks for the exact tone, so that the scraps are like the brushstrokes of a canvas.
From there the process slows down: she arranges, relocates, rotates, turns the pieces until she finds the result.
The themes of her works are related to moments in her life: interests and emerging situations. Many were inspired by mathematical or geometric logics: successions, movement, gradings, geometric modules and repetitions.
Others are related to the healing dimension of the work she does: diseases and pandemics set in motion powerful and inspiring processes for her and for others. It is a great joy to gather and share different paths and approaches to textile work.