Working with artist Carole Miles young people from the Avondale Grange Ward have been making screen prints for Christmas stockings and sacks at the Green Patch Community Allotments in Margaret Rd / Valley Walk, Kettering. We cut paper stencils and used textile inks and screen printing equipment to transfer our designs onto fabric that had once been covers for shelving units.
Prints drying in Carole's living room.
All prints were ironed at The Resource Centre, fronts were trimmed and backs were cut from a fabric sample book before being sewn together to create stockings or sacks.
The stockings then became a temporary installation hung on a line attached to some trees growing just off Stamford Rd, very cose to a textile recycling bin and within our postcode area for the whole View From Here project.
The installation gave us the opportunity to talk to passing members of the community and to tell them about the project.
The children will take their stockings home just before Christmas to share with friends and family during the festive season.
This has been the start of The Binding Thread aspect of our project in which we will be using textiles to explore toughts, feelings, memories and ideas.
This installation was an simple and effective way of altering the view, caused a few raised eyebrows and sparked some interest in our project. You can
see more images here.
