Lace workshop

Course presentation:
This workshop invites you to discover the bobbin lace technique
over two days. Program: presentation of basic lace tools, gestures and stitches
basic lace stitches (from canvas to net background!).
foundations for perfecting your skills on your own at home.
at home. This introductory course is open to participants aged 10 and over.

Gladys Sauvage:
I'm an artist and lace-maker. After training in
in fashion design in Nantes, it was during my master's degree in Tapestry / Textile Art
Art at the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels that I
discovered a fascination for the bobbin lace technique.
bobbin lace. In my opinion, using this modern-day technique is a way of rejecting the logic of productivism.
a way of rejecting a logic of productivism and consumerism, by working
slowly and passionately. In my artistic practice, I question both the poetics
the poetics of lace, as well as the questions raised by its history
its history: from its apogee to its demise at the hands of the machine.
machine. My work takes the form of sculptural objects, installations and performances,
installations and performances. I've been teaching lacemaking for 3 years,
in co-creation workshops with the collective "Les p'tites dentelles
and workshops.

Instagram : @gladyssauvage - @lesp.titesdentellesgeantes
https://gladyssauvage.com/