Yarnish workshop at Virkki home museum 20.1.2024
Together with textile artist Riikka Peltola, Seams Helsinki organized a workshop in the home museum, where we tried out the basket weaving technique while learning together. Seams Helsinki is an open community that aims to promote a more sustainable fashion culture based on e.g. to locality. Riikka Peltola is a textile artist who graduated from the department of fashion at Aalto University and works with various soft fiber materials. Basket weaving technique is the handcraft technique of 2024 chosen by Taitoliitto.
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Kaino - sleeping swan 2017, 50x70cm, handmade and sewing, ceramics
Yarnish workshop at Virkki home museum 20.1.2024
Together with textile artist Riikka Peltola, Seams Helsinki organized a workshop in the home museum, where we tried out the basket weaving technique while learning together. Seams Helsinki is an open community that aims to promote a more sustainable fashion culture based on e.g. to locality. Riikka Peltola is a textile artist who graduated from the department of fashion at Aalto University and works with various soft fiber materials. Basket weaving technique is the handcraft technique of 2024 chosen by Taitoliitto.
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Tyyne-Kerttu Virkki seminar
17.3. 2023 from 13:00 to 16:00
"Towards sustainable development textile's story renewed"
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PÄIVÄLEHTEN MUSEUM / Auditorium, Ludviginkatu 2-4,
00130 Helsinki
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The seminar continues the theme of the previous seminar (2020) and draws attention to the responsibility of fashion, clothing design and the textile industry: reducing textile waste and the possibilities of reusing textiles and the development of more environmentally friendly materials.
The problems of the current topic and the ongoing efforts are widely highlighted in the presentations of experts from different fields. The memorial seminar of handicraft adviser Tyyne-Kerttu Virkki, dealing with current themes, is being held now
20th time.
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Participation is free
SCHEDULE
Initial words
Silja Koskimies, assistant
Tyyne-Kerttu Virkki Foundation
Sustainable growth of the textile and fashion industry:
under what conditions and how?
Marja-Liisa Niinikoski, CEO
Suomen Tekstiili & Muoti ry
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A dream of sustainable textile systems
Minna Halme, professor
Aalto University, FinixAalto
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Product development that supports nature
- cattail down as material
Fluff Stuff Oy
Utilization of household waste textiles
as a domestic raw material
Anna Garton, removal textile expert
Southwest Finland Waste Management
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Creating a collection from waste textiles and cutting waste by means of braiding
Katariina Rainio, designer
Visible mending - darning as mending
Minttu Wikberg, textile artist
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Wallpaper: AALTO 21 show