Czech Craft is Here

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60461071%3A_____%2F19%3AN0000001" target="_blank" >RIV/60461071:_____/19:N0000001 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.umprum.cz/web/en/umprum/national-treasure-czech-craft-is-here-9043" target="_blank" >https://www.umprum.cz/web/en/umprum/national-treasure-czech-craft-is-here-9043</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech Craft is Here

Original language description

The UMPRUM Studio of Textile Design at this year's Dutch Design Week presents the results of a year-long cooperation with the North Bohemian manufacturer of glass beads - Preciosa Ornella. The project shows innovative technological methods and builds on traditional and often neglected craft connections such as textiles and glass beads. The presentation “The National Treasure, Czech Craft Is Here” offers new solutions and seeks out the alternative form young designers can offer to traditional cultural clichés. It is a call for anchored market interests. The exhibited artefacts present a wealth of work with glass beads. They show courage to test unconventional solutions, experiment and connect with contemporary textile technologies. Students use beads in digital machine embroidery, combine them with knitted fabric, embroider, but reappraise them as raw materials and make them into new materials. The interconnection of wool felt and glass beads give rise to new structural meterage, which offers a wide range of applications in furniture and interior design, such as sound barrier walls or new types of upholstery. The tubular type of bead becomes a structural element for creating a variable glass mesh suitable for interior dividers. By beading and entangling the beads, a flowing material is obtained that provides an unusual haptic experience where the glass beads maintain their cool temperature compared to the warm textile. The result of the year's intensive work will be set in the environment of the “Glass Room”. It´s centerpiece is a large table - a place to meet, share and spend time together, in this case through workshops. The relationship to, respect for, and non-waste of objects are symbolically represented as wardrobes. The intimate picture gallery of silk scarves is also added to the installation. The atmosphere is enhanced by pedestals, which are made from glass rods blanks that are used in bead production. At the end of the walk through the room, the viewer sees himself in the reflection of a mirror. The mirror is a symbol of self-reflection that offers viewers a glimpse into the heart and the realization that we are the creators of the world in which we live. The exhibition is not only against the effects of consumerism but also the increasing absence of traditional encounters. Therefore, during the entirety of the exhibition, there will be a pearl making workshop at the central table covered with velvet. It is not just about making new things, but especially about reviving old clothes and accessories with new pearl applications. Just as students were looking to give unusable beads a second life, they will help give a second chance to clothes that would have at best otherwise ended up in a garbage container.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

E_nekrit - Exhibition

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

Eindhoven

Event country

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Event starting date

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Event ending date

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Total number of attendees

12

Foreign attendee count

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Type of event by attendee nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce