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PEATS Romania – Peg-Looming & Other Crafts Skills
Dates: 2021 dates to be released (exptected to be late July/August 2021)
Number of UK Participants: 6
Duration: 4 weeks
The placement is hosted by “Satul verde”, an organization that works in traditional skills, cultural heritage, arts, environment and nature conservation. The placement will take place in Alba Iulia and will familiarize participants with Romanian traditional mask-making and glass icon-painting. These crafts have known a period of revival in the last few years. Participants will work in a local workshop with skilled local craftswomen to produce original masks and glass icons.
- looking at meadow flowers & local mountains herbs. making wreaths of wild flowers
- makin bags, purses and accessoiries & photoshoot at then end of the week
- knitting, crochet and sewing
- mask making and icon painting
Week 1: Discussions about the programme. Introduction to traditional Romanian textiles.
This week we’ll do some peg looming and hand weaving with natural materials.
An introduction by Martin Clark (Grampus director) sets the scene and includes a visit to the hay meadows around Ampoita , where you see a huge range of wild flowers and grasses and do some simple textile experiments. This links to the peg-looming and the weaving with natural plant fibres. Peg-loomimg is with wool, fleece and recycled textile and we combine some natural fibres such as hemp and tree bark for a natural and sustainable look.
Week 2: This week you’ll be working with Adriana Patkova to make bags, purses & accessories using old pieces of traditional textiles. It’s a great way to give a contemporary look to old fabrics. We’ll have a photos shoot at the end of the week with the accessories that you created. The photos shoot will promote environmental and cultural sustainability.
Week 3: Knitting, crochet & sewing. You will be working with craft ladies from the area to create accessories, bags & shirts.
Week 4: This week you’ll be working with Ioana Negoita, a mask maker and icon painter. She will teach you how to make Romanian masks using a wide range of materials, from wool to horns, leather, shipskin. The masks are still used in northern Romania before New Year’s Eve in countryside festivals. It is believed that they ban winter and its evil spirits to welcome a new year.
In the village of Rimet in the Trascau Mountains, we have an on-going project with the museum. We visit there to see the textiles and if time allows, we work with lime, sand and paint to transfer a textile pattern to a wall as applied art. The textile patterns (embroidery and cross-stitch) are very interesting with a range of symbolic meanings.
Outcomes of 2018 PEATS Romania placement
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