10 am - 2 pm, drop in any time
Free - please RSVP
On Saturday 23rd September our Creative Elephant program will conclude with a free interactive weaving demonstration and yarn sale. Come and join textile specialist and hand weaver, Mairi Gillies to experience the mindful benefits of yarm windings and learn different techniques of off-loom weaving. Visitors will also get to purchase yarn to take home from the event's yarn sale.
About Mairi:
Mairi Gillies is a textile specialist and hand weaver based in London. Originally getting into textiles at a young age, it was during her BA Hons degree in woven textile design at Central Saint Martins where she found her love for weaving.
Mairi has worked as a freelance designer across both sectors of interior and fashion textiles, including exhibiting her woven textiles during London Fashion Week and having her textiles featured in ELLE UK. Her achievements have been recognised by The Heritage Craft Association, shortlisting her to the top 3 for the Young Weaver of the Year Award.
Keeping sustainable practices at the heart of everything she does, Mairi utilises repurposed materials within her weaving. Working with the ethos of ‘not needing to buy new to create new’, Mairi produces textiles of bold colour and texture which convey experimental play and communicative storytelling through woven material.
About Creative Elephant:
Hotel Elephant is pleased to present Creative Elephant, a program of events and workshops celebrating the creative and design talents of our studio members for the London Design Festival and Urban Elephant Festival. The program will include a group exhibition of artwork and objects from our members, including textiles, fashion, fine art and jewellery. The exhibition is free to attend and will run for the duration of the festival. Our events program will include participatory workshops and demonstrations from different craftspeople, alongside an evening talk about Chinese Filigree for the Southwark Design District lates program.
