RAG SCHOOL
Heritage Costume Making
Photos coming soon
This term we are focusing on making Heritage costumes from re-cycled textiles.
ELTA’s house style of shared motifs and joyful riots of colour, developed as if by magic over thirteen years and continues to welcome new influences and participants. Deep responses to colour through shared heritages, have emerged through the hands of every maker. Now is the time to develop this non verbal understanding of colour through the Rag School’s re-purposing of found materials and layering with Kantha stitch.
Working with textile waste requires a leap of faith, as colours match by co-incidence or force you to try something new. Discussions about textile dying heritages and how colours are extracted from nature, both sustainably and destructively will inspire a responsible and confident approach to new work. Old saris and worn out sheets will prosper between Kantha patterns as we explore Newham’s diverse costume heritage.