Textil- und Faserworkshops
In our hands!
Workshops and courses in the context of textile arts:
In 2025, the workshops concentrate on quilting and textile surface design. The focus will be on sewing by hand and the sewing machine as a creative tool.
Workshops on embroidery techniques used in couture embroidery will be added later in the year or early 2026. In the area of fiber arts, I am planning workshops on wool processing, felting and spinning with the hand spindle.
Intensiv-Workshop
Eine Einführung in Sashiko:
Unshin und die Konstruktion von Moyouzashi und Hitomezashi
10. und 11. Mai 2025
12 bis 16 Uhr
150 EUR
4 Plätze
In diesem Wochenend-Workshop lernst du alles Wesentliche über Sashiko: die für Sashiko typische Technik Unshin und wie die zwei bekannten Mustergruppen, Moyouzashi und Hitomezashi konstruiert und genäht/gestickt werden.
Intensiv Workshop
Einführung in Sashiko: Unshin und die Konstruktion von Moyouzashi und Hitomezashi
04. und 05. Okt. 2025
12 bis 16 Uhr
150 EUR
4 Plätze
In diesem Wochenend-Workshop lernst du alles Wesentliche über Sashiko: die für Sashiko typische Technik Unshin und wie die zwei bekannten Mustergruppen, Moyouzashi und Hitomezashi konstruiert und genäht/gestickt werden.
Die Kunst mit der Hand zu Nähen - Nähworkshop
25. Januar 2026
12 bis 16 Uhr
60 EUR
5 Plätze
Der Workshop widmet sich dem grenzenlosen Potential der kurzen bis halblangen Nähnadel. Ich zeige dir, wie im Zusammenspiel mit Nähring bzw. Fingerhut der Nähprozess zu einem organischen und intimen Erlebnis wird! Wir nähen ein professionelles Tool, einen Emery Bag in der Form eines Jonglierballs.
Using needle and thread as creative tools is both simple and challenging. The focus of the workshops is on craft processes with simple and inexpensive tools. Based on my training as a men's tailor in combination with my art studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Städelschule Frankfurt, I have therefore designed a series of workshops to create a solid basis for my own projects. The workshops serve to create a basis for independent creative work with textile and fiber materials, to impart knowledge about working with minimal means and to deepen the understanding of the importance of textile craft methods.
The sewing machine workshop teaches the basics of using the sewing machine as a creative tool, as unencumbered as possible by its status as an efficient and time-saving machine.
I am currently learning spinning with the drop spindle and embroidery for haute couture. I am looking forward to adding further focal points to the workshop program from 2026.
Please note: The processes are usually slow and the focus of the workshops is designed to teach skills. You will receive guidance and inspiration, gain practical experience and an understanding of how to continue working on your own.
In the course of time, further courses will be added: felting, ribbon weaving from the Andes, Korean bogaji, Italian trapunto and quilting inspired by the Siddi quilts - kawandi - from India.
If you are in a difficult financial situation and the workshop fees are too high for your wallet, please let me know. We will discuss together whether I can grant a discount.
Participation in the workshops is at your own risk.