COOLWOOL – Wool Museum tour and Iluminated Textiles workshop

08 Dec. 2018

Museu de Lanifícios, Covilhã


Come and prepare Christmas in this workshop on interactive textiles and at the end take with you the lighted cloth!

 

Program

. 14h30: Visiting the Wool Museum

. 15h30: Workshop Weaving Stories

Inspired by the DIY culture, this workshop, we will combine electric conductive textile materials with conventional textile materials to create sonic textiles as well as lighted cloth!

. 16h30: Afternoon tea

 

Address: Museu de Lanifícios, Núcleo Real Fábrica Veiga, Calçada do Biribau, Covilhã.

Price30 € | Special rate for students and collaborators of UBI: 20 €.

RegistrationPrevious register is required by phone (275 241411) or E.mail (muslan@ubi.pt).

Participants: 20


Tecitex+Wool Museum UBI | COOLWOOL.

This partnership developed between Tecitex (New Hand Lab) and the Wool Museum of the University of Beira Interior, aims to highlight a very characteristic endogenous product: the wool.

 

Proposal:

A weekend dedicated to visit the factory, see woolen machines; visits to the works of the resident authors; presentation of a 1929 documentary with live music; workshop “Weaving stories”; and workshop “Creating Interactive Textiles” (a combination of traditional textiles and electrical conductive textile materials).

 

More information soon.


Covilhã

https://coolwool.pt/


Guida Mendes Rolo | Rita Salvado

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