SLOW STiTCH NOMAD
Stitch In Silence was a workshop that offered a tranquil space and time for participants to put their daily hustles aside in a session of silent stitching. (Image courtesy of Xin Lin)
Participatory art activities and public discussions will be set up at Blue House, the 100-year-old cultural heritage in Wan Chai. (Image courtesy of Viva Blue House)
A collective art event in 2019 held in collaboration with Creativity is, where the public was invited to experience stitching and patchworking with fabric scraps. (Images courtesy of Creativity is)
A collective art event in 2019 held in collaboration with Creativity is, where the public was invited to experience stitching and patchworking with fabric scraps. (Images courtesy of Creativity is)
Slow Stitch Festival advocates for the slowing down of clothing production, and putting more emphasis on educating the public on the art of clothes making. It aims to preserve and popularise basic sewing skills through the online to offline tutorials and cultivate the habit of re-fashioning for future wearables. The project hopes to provide a viable, sustainable alternative to the increasingly indistinguishable options of the high street. The project proposed the inclusion of refashioning workshops and repair services, interactive art activities, talks and an exhibition, to encourage the re-evaluation of the clothes we own in a sustainable and sensible way.
Slow Stitch Festival advocates for the slowing down of clothing production, and putting more emphasis on educating the public on the art of clothes making. It aims to preserve and popularise basic sewing skills through the online to offline tutorials and cultivate the habit of re-fashioning for future wearables. The project hopes to provide a viable, sustainable alternative to the increasingly indistinguishable options of the high street. The project proposed the inclusion of refashioning workshops and repair services, interactive art activities, talks and an exhibition, to encourage the re-evaluation of the clothes we own in a sustainable and sensible way.
- 2020
- Grantee: Toby Lam Wai Yin
Founder of re-fashion label LastbutnotLeast and Fashion Clinic, Toby has worked in different sectors in the fashion field ranging from magazine editor to designer, she worked as a design manager at French label Agnes b. before launching LastbutnotLeast in 2013. Believing that the fashion industry is sick and needs prescriptions for change, Toby has been focusing on redesigning fashion service & textile art, running exhibitions, workshops and events with various fashion brands, corporate, shopping malls and green groups, in order to reconnect the relationship between the clothing and the wearers and simultaneously stitch up a sustainable future.
- Project Progress:
Toby is currently working with St. James Settlement on a public engagement programme to be staged at the historic Blue House. The neighbour community will be invited to take part in an interactive art project as well as discussions on re-fashioning and re-designing, in the context of the building’s heritage. Toby will also be extending the reach of her “Slow Stitch project” with a series of online and offline workshops in collaboration with university students, which will culminate in an exhibition planned for next year.