Turn your unique creation into a computer sleeve with the colourful pixels of the Illumin-Loom. In this exciting one-hour workshop, you will explore essential graphic design principles that will help bring your ideas to life! Then, you will get to customise your computer sleeve, including personal lettering and yarn selection, all under the expert guidance of […]
Embroidery, beading, drawnwork – these intricate tasks were once skilfully carried out by many of our older generations. Upon closer look, they also illustrate the defining qualities of commercial craft production and circulation in 20th-century Hong Kong, such as systematisation of skilled work, female labour and leadership, adaptation for export markets, and alienation between makers […]
Tidal Weavers: Islands Exchange unfolds as a process and generative space of shared memory and interwoven knowledge. Central to it is an artist exchange between grassroots organisations across South China Sea to cultivate mutual learning and long-term collaboration. Artists, weavers, researchers and community members dwell and work together in immersive settings. Through conversations, shared meals, […]
Since 2019, CHAT’s flagship community programme Seed to Textile has been acquainting artists and the public with the connections between nature, textiles and art, offering hands-on experiences ranging from farming to gallery practice. This year, we have invited Hong Kong artist Sara Tse to explore how nature and textiles weave into people’s memories and, during […]