Waste Craft Workshop: Yarn Spinning & Weaving
SATURDAY 19 FEBRUARY / 12–3PM / BOOK HERE
New Waste Craft: Agro-Textiles explores new possibilities for agricultural textiles, an emerging sector with positive impacts on the production of crops and vegetables. Applications of agro-textiles increases yield by 33% and reduces the requirement of pesticides and fertilizers. The project aims at rethinking synthetic agro-textiles by designing sustainable, visually energising woven and knitted textiles for cultivation of microgreens, including mulch mats, cover shields and insect meshes.
Textile artist Michelle Pratt is experimenting to develop biofibres with waste materials to produce yarn to weave and knit agro-textiles that can be reused and reprocessed. She will be running waste craft workshops including yarn spinning and weaving, which will contribute to the development of New Waste Craft: Agro-Textiles.
Image: Michelle Pratt & The Brain Charity – Lockdown Blanket
SATURDAY 19 FEBRUARY / 12–3PM / BOOK HERE
New Waste Craft: Agro-Textiles explores new possibilities for agricultural textiles, an emerging sector with positive impacts on the production of crops and vegetables. Applications of agro-textiles increases yield by 33% and reduces the requirement of pesticides and fertilizers. The project aims at rethinking synthetic agro-textiles by designing sustainable, visually energising woven and knitted textiles for cultivation of microgreens, including mulch mats, cover shields and insect meshes.
Textile artist Michelle Pratt is experimenting to develop biofibres with waste materials to produce yarn to weave and knit agro-textiles that can be reused and reprocessed. She will be running waste craft workshops including yarn spinning and weaving, which will contribute to the development of New Waste Craft: Agro-Textiles.
Image: Michelle Pratt & The Brain Charity – Lockdown Blanket