Textile Takeover

Name: Textile Takeover
Start: 2024-10-12T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-12T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Ulster Folk Museum, Cultra

Schedule

Sat Oct 12 2024 at 11:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Ulster Folk Museum, Cultra | Holywood, NI

Discover sustainable textiles, learn the skills to repair your favourite clothes, and shop vintage at our Textile Takeover on Saturday 12th October.
Here at the Folk Museum, we are passionate about textiles and sustainability. We can learn so much from our collections about how people created, valued, repaired and reused textiles in the past. And now, we want to share these skills with you! With this knowledge, we can find ways to help tackle the negative impact the industry has on nature and people.
At the Textile Takeover, we'll be joined by a range of experts, makers, designers and sellers on this exciting day of demonstrations, talks, and stalls.
Try embroidery with Angeline Murphy Design and get hands-on with the linen-making process with our in-house weaver. Shop for sustainable fashion with Sally Vintage and bag some new-to-you bargains with Switch by EnvironmentalÉadaí. Learn about patchworking from the Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild, and watch demos from crocheting to rag rugging, where we'll be giving scrap fabrics from our costume department a new life! You will also have the opportunity to bring your damaged garments along and get one-on-one guidance from the experts at Bangor Repair Café.
Get inspired by makers and entrepreneurs forging a sustainable fashion industry from Mourne Textiles who make luxury handwoven textiles to Jump the Hedges and their farm-to-garment project.
See the full list of makers and speakers on our website ulsterfolkmuseum.org