Weave Up! Open Call 2023

Weave Up! project is a contribution to the Creative Europe programme, set up by the European Commission to support initiatives that seek to preserve, promote and develop the diversity of European cultural heritage. It is established through the common work of an international consortium formed by the association HS_Projets, the cooperative society Ideias Emergentes and the Vilnius Academy of Arts.

These three entities are collaborating for two and a half years (from January 2023 to September 2025) on the Weave Up! project, financed by the European Union programme. Weave Up! aims to bring together future textile professionals and designers with the textile chain actors: breeders, farmers, craftsmen and textile companies and factories, while showing the diversity of textile production and its applications.

The 3 actors have chosen 4 emblematic textile materials of European heritage: linen, wool, leather and cork. The plant or animal nature of the chosen materials requires multiple skills and knowledge, as does their transformation into fibres and textile materials, which requires a great deal of technological knowledge. The project proposes 1 residency and 1 workshop per material. The aim of the residencies is to discover the textile chain of linen, leather, cork and wool and the workshops aim to improve one or two ecological skills of each of these materials. The residencies will take place in 2023 (between June and October) and the workshops in 2024 (between June and October).

Each fibre has its own dedicated residency and workshop. Each residency and workshop takes place with a team of 7 people. The results of this project are intended to be shown in a documentary and in the different events of the consortium: Contextile 2024 (Guimarães, Portugal), FITE – Biennale Textile 2024 (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and exhibitions in the art galleries of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania). Through this funding, Creative Europe aims to improve access to European cultural and creative works and promote innovation and creativity.

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