Japanese Sõkin (cleaning towel) Quilting

Online / Workshop / Quilting

Since 2016 the Dutch artist Maaike Gottschal is making handwoven and hand quilted cleaning towels. She will teach this simple, meaningful, mindful technique and tell about the historical references in many cultures and her experiences with using these textiles in daily life. The artist has made a lot of textiles for her own use, friends, and family since 2016. Years of experience have taught here that living and working with it means loving and caring for it. Users develop a relationship with the textile. Living and working with these textiles give beautiful experiences and create great textile art.

Maaike Gottschal is a multidisciplinary (textile) artist from the Netherlands.
Through her work, Maaike aims to advocate for beauty and poetry in her textiles; beauty has a transformative power of imagination that makes our relationship with textiles personal, powerful and meaningful'

Here appreciation for textiles was passed down through her family. She grew up in a textile family that learned her weaving, spinning, bobbin lace making, embroidery, sewing, and explore many other techniques from an early age. Maaike studied design, art history, jewellery, and visual arts and is working across disciplines and their intersections.
Over the past fifteen years, she studied a wide range of textile techniques with seven teachers around the world, as part of a self-designed program called Textile as Language. Since 2020, she has been creating textiles using locally grown flax. Textile techniques and textile cultures are central to her work and knowledge. Anyone can spin, weave, and create beautiful, meaningful cloth. Her textiles are not technically perfect—rather, they are woven to highlight the human aspect of nowadays art.
Maaike teaches textile masterclasses since 2013 at her company Textielfabrique.

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