Творческая мастерская: Мастерская набивания ткани

The Textiles Printing Workshop was established several years ago at the Latvian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (DMDM), and it has attracted people of different age groups. Back in the 1930s, Ansis Cīrulis established a workshop to popularise silkscreen printing and called it “maddering” after a meadow flower called the madder, or bedstraw. People from many nations had learned to extract the colour red from the madder.

People are welcome to bring pieces of cloth or apparel to the DMDM to have a print applied to it on the basis of designs from such great artists as Ansis Cīrulis, Jūlijs Madernieks and Jūlijs Straume, as well as more recent and younger artists. Students from art schools and others with an in-depth interest in the process can go on tours of the museum’s basic exhibition before starting the maddering process. An expert will talk about the silkscreen artworks of Cīrulis and contemporary artists, analysing their composition, the meaning of Latvian ornamentation, and the things which the maddering technique makes possible.

Please bring woollen textiles or apparel for printing. Woven bags are available at the museum.

The cost of the process is LVL 2, including a visit to the museum’s permanent exhibition. The workshop is taught by the textiles artist Kristīne Sīle.

Queries regarding booking of participation in the workshops:( +371) 7830907