Celia Pym Sock Mending Free Event
To celebrate Pym's new book SOCKS Imaginative Mending, please join us for socks darning and book signing!
SOCKS is an illustrated account of teaching a whole primary school how to darn a sock. It describes the project, why it happened, how it was planned and the impact it had. Perhaps most importantly it celebrates the socks and stitches themselves with photographs of every mended sock that was made.
Celia will be in store signing your books and we will have a sock mending salon on our middle floor. Bring your own socks to mend or there will also be socks and yarns available to practice on. This is not a taught session but there will be instructions and materials and people to help you with your darning - and an opportunity to sit and stitch together. Mend those favourite socks!
When:
January 31st , 4:30 -6:30pm
Where:
Loop Shop on Camden Passage
Author Biography
Celia Pym is an artist based in London who explores damage and repair in textiles –
from small moth holes to larger accidents with fire. Her interest concerns the
evidence of damage, and how repair draws attention to the places where garments
and cloth wear down and grow thin. More recently she’s been thinking about how
other people acquire and use the skills and confidence to mend and repair clothing.
Her tools are scissors, yarn and a sharp needle: ‘My kit is lightweight and portable. I
can travel to you. Nothing is beyond repair. And almost everything can be sorted – or
invented – with needle and thread.’
Celia is an associate lecturer in textiles at the Royal College of Art. This is her
second book with Quickthorn Press.
Celia Pym is an artist based in London who explores damage and repair in textiles –
from small moth holes to larger accidents with fire. Her interest concerns the
evidence of damage, and how repair draws attention to the places where garments
and cloth wear down and grow thin. More recently she’s been thinking about how
other people acquire and use the skills and confidence to mend and repair clothing.
Her tools are scissors, yarn and a sharp needle: ‘My kit is lightweight and portable. I
can travel to you. Nothing is beyond repair. And almost everything can be sorted – or
invented – with needle and thread.’
Celia is an associate lecturer in textiles at the Royal College of Art. This is her
second book with Quickthorn Press.