workshop: Desirée Hammen

Embroidering Species

with Desirée Hammen

18 Oct 2021

Along with fashion designer Desirée Hammen you can create a fabulous animal in mixed media. With her help, you embroider skins, tracks, veins and other patterns and textures in textiles and also work with very fast techniques to make patterns.

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Desirée Hammen during the workshop "Embroidering Species" - Fashion designer Desirée Hammen  explains embroidery techniques to the workshop participants and instructs them on how to create animals in mixed media.  Caroline Aravicius, Desirée Hammen

Desirée Hammen

Desirée Hammen graduated from Artez Institute of the Arts in Arnhem, 2003. She works as a fashion designer and artist in her hometown Eindhoven. Her current work consists of a series of free-knit cardigans, installations and autonomous embroideries, her speciality. She just finished her training at the famous Ecole Lesage in Paris. In her work Desirée is combining haute couture techniques with her own DIY skills, exploring the beauty of imperfection. Her work is being described as ‘poetic, chaotic, intense and playful’. With her indoor and outdoor installations she is disrupting reality in a gentle way. With her handmade one-of-a-kind clothings she is stressing the personality of the person who is wearing it. Over the last years Desirée participated in exhibitions and projects in Amsterdam, New York and Shanghai.

The Workshop

In this workshop, you and Desirée crawl into the skin of other life forms, seeking inspiration in the forms and lines of the other. You learn embroidery techniques in the broadest sense of the word: from embroidering with natural materials to experimenting with repetitions and patterns. Together with Desirée and the other participants you make a large work of art that is created through experimentation, improvisation and observation

For whom?

The workshop is for everyone! Young, old, experienced or inexperienced.

What is to be learned

Depending on what you want you will learn:

- Haute couture embroidery techniques
- Embroidery improvisation techniques
- Experimenting with natural and unnatural materials.

Tickets

Tickets are €5

Information

Inhuman Carnaval at Dutch Design Week
Embroidering Species
18th October 2021, 12:00-17:00
Natlab, Eindhoven

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The workshop " Embroidering Species" - Some tools during the workshop "Embroidering Species" that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval Program at Dutch Design Week 21'. Caroline Aravicius

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Participant working with materials during the workshop " Embroidering Species" - Participants doing some work together during the workshop "Embroidering Species" that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval Program at Dutch Design Week 21'. Caroline Aravicius

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Species mask - This mask was created during the "Embroidering Species" workshop that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval program during Dutch Design Week 21'.  Caroline Aravicius

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Participant working with materials during the workshop " Embroidering Species" - Participants creating mask during the workshop "Embroidering Species" that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval Program at Dutch Design Week 21'. Caroline Aravicius

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Desirée Hammen during the workshop "Embroidering Species" - Fashion designer Desirée Hammen  explains embroidery techniques to the workshop participants and instructs them on how to create animals in mixed media.  Caroline Aravicius, Desirée Hammen

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Participant working with materials during the workshop " Embroidering Species" - Participant creating a mask during the workshop "Embroidering Species" that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval Program at Dutch Design Week 21'. Caroline Aravicius

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Participant working together with Desirre at the workshop " Embroidering Species" - Participants doing some work together with fashion designer Desirée Hammen during the workshop "Embroidering Species" that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval Program at Dutch Design Week 21'. Caroline Aravicius, Desirée Hammen

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Participant working with materials during the workshop " Embroidering Species" - Participants creating mask during the workshop "Embroidering Species" that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval Program at Dutch Design Week 21'. Caroline Aravicius

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Species mask - These masks are created during the "Embroidering Species" workshop that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval program during Dutch Design Week 21'.  Caroline Aravicius, Desirée Hammen

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Materials during the workshop " Embroidering Species" - Some materials during the workshop "Embroidering Species" that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval Program at Dutch Design Week 21'. Caroline Aravicius

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Participant working with materials during the workshop " Embroidering Species" - A workshop participant doing some detailed work during the workshop "Embroidering Species" that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval Program at Dutch Design Week 21'. Caroline Aravicius

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Participant working with materials during the workshop " Embroidering Species" - Participant doing some work together during the workshop "Embroidering Species" that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval Program at Dutch Design Week 21'. Caroline Aravicius, Desirée Hammen

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Participant working with materials during the workshop " Embroidering Species" - Participants doing some work together during the workshop "Embroidering Species" that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval Program at Dutch Design Week 21'. Caroline Aravicius, Desirée Hammen

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Participant working with materials during the workshop " Embroidering Species" - Participants doing some work together with fashion designer Desirée Hammen during the workshop "Embroidering Species" that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval Program at Dutch Design Week 21'. Caroline Aravicius, Desirée Hammen

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Species mask - This mask is created during the "Embroidering Species" workshop that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval program during Dutch Design Week 21'.  Caroline Aravicius, Desirée Hammen

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Species mask - This mask is created during the "Embroidering Species" workshop that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval program during Dutch Design Week 21'.  Caroline Aravicius, Desirée Hammen

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Species mask - This mask is created during the "Embroidering Species" workshop that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval program during Dutch Design Week 21'.  Caroline Aravicius, Desirée Hammen

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Species mask - These mask is created during the "Embroidering Species" workshop that is part of the Inhuman Carnaval program during Dutch Design Week 21'.  Caroline Aravicius, Desirée Hammen

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Desirée Hammen during the workshop "Embroidering Species" - Fashion designer Desirée Hammen  explains embroidery techniques to the workshop participants and instructs them on how to create animals in mixed media.  Caroline Aravicius