Craft Workshop:The Fabric Time-Machine - Print Your Own Family Story!

The Fabric Time-Machine: Print Your Own Family Story! is a super fun, three-hour creative adventure for families.
About this Event

Together, we will become history detectives! We will explore how people from long ago used fabric and anthropology to share secret family stories, shapes, and symbols. We will get the chance to look at fabrics from around the world and look at how we can decode the patterns and symbols.

Next, your family will team up to invent your very own secret visual language. We will think about story mapping and changing words into symbols.

Then, the messy fun begins! With the expert guidance of the artist facilitator, we will use safe, bloc printing methods to stamp and print your colourful new designs onto fabric to take home.

Come make some memories and create your very own family banner with a secret story of your own! Families learn how people throughout history used decorated fabrics to tell stories about who they were.

To understand how this works, children will become "history detectives" using their own everyday clothes. They will look at clues on school uniforms, sports kits, or favourite hoodies to see how clothing still tells a story today. Then, families will design and print their own unique symbols onto fabric to create a modern family textile that tells the story of their family.

Art Tutor:

Christiana Pascalides is an artist, community arts practitioner and teacher from East London. She regularly runs a community drawing group in Bethnal Green and various workshops for festivals and community events under the name ‘Inside Out Arts’.

This event is part of the Anthropology Summer School London held near Victoria Park, Hackney and online. More info on our events and courses: [email protected]