HS_Projets in France, Ideias Emergentes in Portugal, and Vilnius Academy of Arts in Lithuania are collaborating on the Weave Up! project, financed by the Creative Europe programme. Weave Up! aims to bring together future textile professionals and designers with the textile chain actors: breeders, farmers, craftsmen and textile companies and factories, while showing the diversity of textile production and its applications.
The 3 project partners have chosen 4 emblematic textile materials of European heritage: linen, wool, leather and cork. The plant or animal nature of the chosen materials requires multiple skills and knowledge, as does their transformation into fibres and textile materials, which requires a great deal of technological knowledge. The project proposes 1 residency and 1 workshop per material. The aim of the residencies is to discover the textile chain of linen, leather, cork and wool and the workshops aim to improve one or two ecological skills of each of these materials. The residencies will take place in 2023 (between June and October) and the workshops in 2024 (between June and October).
Each residency and workshop takes place with a team of 7 people. The results of this project are intended to be shown in a documentary and in the different events of the consortium: Contextile 2024 (Guimarães, Portugal), FITE – Biennale Textile 2024 (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and exhibitions in the art galleries of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania).
Travel to the place of residence/workshop, subsistence and accommodation is covered by the consortium.
