la Galerie du 19M
Kids activity
Introduction to weaving and trimmings
- From 09 to 23 November
- Young public
- 1h15
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- Young public
- 1h15
In this children's workshop, Diane Cescutti guides participants through a variety of traditional weaving techniques, including ikat and passementerie. By combining ikat, the Indonesian technique of knotting previously dyed threads, and passementerie, used for clothing decoration, participants are invited to create a weaving using threads from the Maison Lesage.
Practical info
- Tarif enfant 15 €
The presence of an adult is mandatory throughout the entire session (1 adult for every 2 children).
Complete
Place
la Galerie du 19M - Paris/Aubervilliers
Preparation
For more details, refer to the practical information.
For this workshop devoted to weaving, artist Diane Cescutti invites participants to make a decorative and colourful weaving by learning a number of different techniques. After choosing their threads from a selection produced by the textile department of Maison Lesage, participants can combine ikat and passementerie techniques on a miniature loom to assemble their selected threads and create a decorative weaving to hang on the object of their choice to personalise it: key ring, bag handle, bookmark, etc. Participants will take their work home with them.
Diane Cescutti
Born in Chenôve in 1998, Diane Cescutti is a French transmedia artist who lives and works between Lyon and Paris. She holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Fine Arts from the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 2019 and 2021 respectively. She also studied in the textile section of the Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan and in the Interdisciplinary Practices and Emerging Forms section of the Art Department at the University of Houston in the United States. In 2023, she was resident at the Villa Albertine for the Worlding Marfa project.
To imagine the future of weaving, Diane Cescutti takes as her starting point the loom that was at the origin of computation. Using a speculative, fictional, and narrative approach, she develops the digital potential of weaving. How can we rethink the regular warp and weft grid, not from a visual prism, but from the notion of textile territories?
To celebrate its centenary, Maison Lesage is teaming up its textile design department with the workshops of Diane Cescutti. Specialising in sampling, Lesage Textile constantly experiments with new forms of weaving and will be offering participants a special selection of exceptional threads.
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