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OVER DOEK
MISSIE
Het artistiek textielplatform DOEK zet textiel in als middel en onderwerp voor maatschappelijke verandering. We organiseren ons in een textielplatform dat even beweeglijk is als de wereld waarin het tot stand komt.
Het platform is een transversaal en experimenteel model van en voor een meerstemmige community van kunstenaars, vormgevers, makers, ambachtslui, onderzoekers, sociologen, filosofen… die een brug willen slaan tussen de kunsten, andere sectoren en de publieke ruimte.
Textiel staat bij DOEK als gedeelde interesse en of materiaal centraal, als een venster naar anderen. Textiel in al zijn vormen speelt immers een rol in ieders leven, want iedereen heeft een connectie met textiel. Zo is er voor iederéén ook een connectie met duurzaamheid, identiteit en emotionele waarden.
DOEK realiseert haar missie aan de hand van:
- organiseren en faciliteren van ontmoeting en uitwisseling van kennis en expertise
- ontwikkelen van ontmoetings-, leer- en werkplekken
- aanbieden residenties voor ontwerpers, kunstenaars, ambachtslui, makers en onderzoekers
- ter beschikking stellen van co-making atelier en machines voor textielprofessionals
- verlenen van artistiek advies en coaching
VISIE
Textiel leeft en schrijft een geschiedenis van sporen, ervaringen en verhalen. Verhalen zijn de ideale manier om contact te maken, mensen te raken, en de samenhorigheid te vergroten. Verhalen raken ons en geven betekenis.
Elk project en elke actie bij DOEK ontstaat steeds vanuit “de ontmoeting”. In deze ontmoeting streven we steeds naar gelijkwaardigheid en wederkerigheid in het delen van kennis, kunde en ervaringen. We zorgen dat deze collectieve wijsheid optimaal wordt benut, en zichtbaar gemaakt.
We zorgen voor een duurzame en veerkrachtige omgeving voor onderzoek en concrete experimenten. biedt als artistieke organisatie een spiegel voor de hedendaagse maatschappelijke context. We benaderen maatschappelijke uitdagingen met een artistieke blik en nemen de vrijheid en verantwoordelijkheid om kunst en creativiteit in te zetten als motor voor maatschappelijke en systemische verandering.
We geloven sterk in de waarde van een meerstemmige cultuur als fundament van de samenleving, waarin de kunstenaar, maker, vormgever een rol kan opnemen als transformator voor systemische en duurzame verandering.
Het artistieke staat niet enkel centraal als een persoonlijke artistieke vertaling en expressie van wat er maatschappelijk gebeurt, maar DOEK zet ook aan tot collectieve reflectie en engagement.
WERKING
Het textielplatform DOEK functioneert als connector, aanstoker, facilitator, ontwikkelaar en incubator voor de meerstemmige community van DOEK.
We ontwikkelen artistieke, educatieve, experimentele, innovatieve, en social-design processen, projecten, concepten, tools en methodieken waarin maatschappelijke verandering en textiel de rode draad vormen.
We streven naar meerstemmige diversiteit over sectoren en disciplines heen, dit doen we door in samenwerking met of in opdracht van andere partners en organisaties te werken.
Deze co-creatieprocessen slaan niet enkel een brug tussen diverse meerstemmige talenten, maar zetten ook aan tot transversale kruisbestuivingen tussen verschillende disciplines, sectoren, gemeenschappen en organisaties.
DOEK stimuleert ontwerpers, kunstenaars, ambachtslui, makers en onderzoekers, door een residentie aan te bieden om te onderzoeken, experimenteren, reflecteren.
We connecteren ook nieuwkomers met het uitgebreid netwerk en de community van DOEK. We geven hen de ruimte voor verdere talentontwikkeling en het ontdekken van nieuwe competenties. Zo wordt een residentie ook een taaloefenkans en een kans om hun sociaal en professioneel netwerk uit te breiden. Door deze ervaringen kunnen ze ook verder bouwen aan een professioneel portfolio in hun nieuw thuisland.
We hebben door en tijdens onze projecten afgelopen jaren onderzoek gedaan en expertise opgebouwd rond diverse thema’s:
CIRCULAIR EN DUURZAAM TEXTIEL
- textielupcycling vanuit diverse textielreststromen
- textielinnovatieve modellen
- hergebruik van textielreststromen in de kunsten
TALENTONTWIKKELING
sociale en reguliere tewerkstelling van vluchtelingen in de brede cultuursector
competentie-ontwikkeling van nieuwkomers tijdens onze projecten
empowerment van nieuwkomers
ERFGOED EN KENNISDELING
- overdracht en borging van divers en stedelijk immaterieel erfgoed
- co-creatiemethodieken
- kennisdelingsmethodieken
HISTORIEK
DOEK werd in 2012 onder de vleugels van vzw Kopspel opgericht door social designer, kunstenaar en kostuumontwerper Lies Van Assche en ontstond uit een ambitie om een duurzame textielwerkplaats te ontwikkelen rond maatschappelijke thema’s zoals solidair samenleven, stedelijkheid, identiteit en duurzaamheid. In 2016 beslist DOEK om deze structuur te verlaten.
DOEK is vanaf 2016 operationeel in een eigen vzw en wordt ‘een textielplatform voor het creëren van nieuwe vormen en regels.’ Het DNA van de organisatie, dat drijft op fundamentele waarden als gelijkwaardigheid en wederkerigheid en inzet op het creëren van ruimte en tijd voor een meerstemmige gemeenschap, blijft behouden.
Deurneleitje 6 Mortsel 2640 Belgium
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Anne Masson and Eric Chevalier have collaborated since 2006.
Both trained in textile design, their work results of an investigation and experiment with materials. The pair explores different possible levels of working on the design of textiles, from the raw material to the finished product and its multiple facets -sometimes on the yarn, sometimes on the pattern, on a structure, texture or on a specific shape-. They deal with a wide range of processes and techniques that reveal unexpected views of materials. Radical and precise gesture changes some used or waste items into a new shape and functionality. They often use craft-related processes combined with industrial implementation, sometimes each practised in turn on the same item.
Besides a self-initiated production seen as an exploratory field, the tandem questions textiles in different contexts, as a medium linked to intimate and collective issues. Driven by the pleasure of making and stimulated by transdisciplinary practices, they collaborate with architects, designers and choreographer. The experience with architect offices has brought the studio to meet sharp technical requirements with a sensitive approach, in order to influence effective and affective qualities of the inhabited space. Investing different scales from the very structure of materials to scale 1 of prototypes and space, working with a network of selected suppliers, makers and external collaborators are driving forces for their practice.
Their work is part of private and public collections, such as Gent Design Museum, CID Grand Hornu, Brussels Mode et Dentelle Museum, CNAP in Paris and Barbier-Mueller in Geneva.
Anne runs the textile design Master degree at La Cambre art and design academy in Brussels. Graduated from La Cambre, textile design department, she won the Federal Swiss cultural award (1994, 1996, 1998), collaborated with the accessories designer Eric Beauduin in Brussels and with the Edelkoort Studio in Paris.
Eric teaches in the Textile design and in the Fashion department at La Cambre. After graduating from l’ESAAT in Roubaix (DSAA, 1996), Eric worked as a free lance textile designer for Christian Lacroix Haute-Couture and in research for the automotive industry.
Flore Fockedey has been a regular collaborator since 2018, after an Architecture Master degree at ULB La Cambre Horta in Brussels.
21 Place Saint Denis Brussels B-1190 Belgium
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About
After studying textile design and masterclasses at home and abroad, I immersed myself in hand weaving.
My love for the craft is immense. Through a skilful play with threads I arrive at colorful structures and minimalistic compositions.These being a theme that runs throughout my work.
My designs betray a preference for sustainable natural materials such as Tencel, hemp, linen and merino wool.
I translate my passion for textiles by meticulously creating and finishing with high quality in mind. This makes them as unique as they are timeless!
I draw inspiration from the fine piano music of Wouter Dewit, Jean-Michel Blais and Abdullah Ibrahim, among others.
I like to compose my fabrics with a subtle play of keys and strings.
Giving demonstrations and workshops or collaborating with other creative minds also inspires me endlessly.
In my open studio in Hasselt I guide my patrons with enthusiasm.
Spoorwegstraat 50 Hasselt 3500 Belgium
Yellow & Jaune
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How can you order your fabric?
Choose your fabric
From a punchy color to a cheerful print: choose the fabric that suits you. Every 2 months we launch a new fabric. You always have two weeks with every new launch to order your favorite fabric. After that you can no longer buy the fabric for a while!
Presale closes
You have made your choice and purchased the fabric in advance. After 2 weeks, the pre-sale is closed and the fabric goes into production. That way we know the exact number to be produced.
Your package is coming!
After 2 to 3 weeks, the fabrics will be delivered to us and you will have your package in the bus two days later! In total, your order will take about 3 weeks. But that doesn’t matter, then you can already think of which pattern you want to use!
WHO ARE WE?
We are Sofie & Catherine, creatives pur sang.
Catherine has been a designer for many years, crazy about screen printing,
loves prints and cheerful colours.
Sofie has been working in the event sector for years,
photographer, sewing addict and a big fan of yellow.
Where we stand for
01 Surprising prints We surprise you every 2 months with a new fabric with a unique and timeless print. Viscose, tencel, gabardine, …. everything is possible!
02 Ecological & sustainable Our fabrics will not go into print until the presale is closed. In this way we do not produce more than necessary and we can respond perfectly to the requested quantities. The production process also takes place nearby. A double win in terms of sustainability!
03 slow fashion Slow means really slow to us, no deliveries within 24 hours possible ;-). At Yellow & Jaune you will have to wait a little longer for your package because after the pre-sale, we will only produce and then your order will be packed with lots of love!
Kristof Buntinx
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Brussels designer Kristof Buntinx has already created a furore with his God Save the Queens shirts and gained international fame with a boxer short collection with which he targeted Russian anti-gay laws.
Protest and irony are therefore no strangers to Buntinx, but he also dresses Belgian celebrities in little bespoke gems just as much as he has children photographed as superstars. The exiled Sint-Truiden native has been working under his own label for more than a decade. An official introduction is called for!
Kristof Buntinx was born on 10 September 1975 in the Limburg town of Sint-Truiden. He quickly showed an interest in fashion and design and proceeded to draw from a model and attended sewing and pattern design classes. Buntinx completed internships with several major fashion labels such as Levis jeans and the Amsterdam fashion duo Viktor & Rolf.
His own image language
After his initial designs for the Cinderella Shop in Antwerp he sank his teeth into (and left his fingerprints on) a series of coffee mugs for Godiva. Soon Buntinx would tackle hats, a trick he was able to repeat in 2012 for Royal Ascot.
Shortly thereafter, the Pain clothing line followed, with its own photo series in collaboration with Stijn Vanorbeek. Still inspired by the world of image creation, Buntinx worked with filmmaker Ilke De Vries, this time to explore moving images. The film Vision was the result, in which the designer searched his own conscience by referring to a personal crisis.
Artist’s blood
Between 2008 and 2010 Buntinx focused on hats and a full line of accessories.
Triggered by his own life and personal developments, language associations and puns took up an increasingly important place in his work. Like any true-blue artist, Buntinx also creates from an inner drive. “I have always been crazy about fashion, but designing also proved to be beneficial for my mental health. It is my “therapy with a capital T,” the designer states.
Once Buntinx found his way, an increasing number of opportunities came up: in 2011 the Toga 125 Fashion Awards and a fashion show in which his design Ceci n’est pas un Advocaat shone. That same year Modo Brussels, the MIAT in Ghent and Hong Kong Design week also followed. A prominent fashion watcher from the UK even called Buntinx the most eccentric fashion designer of the Modo Brussels event.
The future is now!
Loved by the international fashion blog scene, Kristof Buntinx does not shun controversy. For example, he came up with a series of socially committed designs such as his answer to the Antwerp rainbow controversy, the God Save the Queens T-shirt’, his Russian boxer shorts, which even reached the American media and the crown jewels for King Philip.
During the last festive period Buntinx surprised friend and foe with a range of crisis jewellery, which questions material luxury. The Christmas dresses designed by Buntinx for Dana Winners’ Christmas tour and for Marlène de Wouters, the presenter at the Queen Elisabeth competition earlier in 2013, were, on the other hand, downright luxurious.
Kristof Buntinx certainly aims to let his designs speak for themselves in 2015.
Stay tuned!
Diane Steverlynck
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Diane Steverlynck lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
After a pedagogical degree in Fine Arts and her graduation at the Textile Design department of the Ecole Nationale des Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels, in 2003, she set up her studio.
Since then, she follows a specific approach centered on the creative potential and transversal nature of textile. Her work focusses on the specificities of materials, structures and the process of making, involving the use and identity of everyday objects.
Rather than a formal will, the shape, aesthetic and poetry of the created objects, results from a care and attention for the materials they are made of, as much as the gestures and stories that they suggest, both in their use and in their manufacturing process. Cross breeding heterogeneous cultural references, her creations respond to universal uses while carrying the trace of collective and personal memories.
Beside her self-initiated productions, she runs collaborative projects with designers, artists and architects. Her presence at international shows has led to collaborations with carpet and furnishing editors such as : Limited Edition (Be), Ligne Roset (Fr), Objekten (Be), Superette (Lu), Trico (Jp) . In 2014, she founded the label laend together with the duo Chevalier-Masson.
Diane’s work is represented by the Valerie Traan gallery in Antwerp and has been part of exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum S’Hertogenbosch, Centre d’Innovation et du Design Grand-Hornu, the Atomium Brussels, the Ghent Design Museum, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and more.
Since 2006, she is a teacher at the textile design department of the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten (KASK), School of Arts in Ghent.
60, Rue de Serbie-Serviestraat Brussels 1190 Belgium
Jasmin Blommaert
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‘Jasmin Blommaert’ stands for original Belgian fashion and captivating bridal wear, characterized by unique, personalized fabric designs and tailoring.
In combination with high-quality fabrics, we go for
a contemporary, stylish and comfortable look.
Clothes that are made for you…
For every occasion.
For every individual
One-stop shop and info:
Monday 12h – 18h
Thursday 12h – 19h
Saturday 10 am – 5 pm
Bride / Made-to-measure clothing: by appointment only
Kontichsesteenweg 47b Aartselaar 2630 Belgium
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Linda Topic focuses on revealing matter through simple and careful gestures. Whether using artisanal or industrial techniques (felting, silkscreen printing, jacquard weaving, laser cutting…) her work defines a dynamic space where matter and color are explored and meet.
She pursues these explorations alongside collaborators within their various disciplines – artists, artisans, editors, design studios and interior designers.
Linda Topic’s different projects are invitations to an open and intuitive use of our daily environment.
Cécile Barraud de Lagerie
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Cécile Barraud de Lagerie.
Left-handed & short-sighted. (。 ・ v ・ 。)ノ
I am from Normandy, I studied in Paris and graduated in textile design from école Duperré and les Arts Déco. I live and work in Brussels since 2009.
FREELANCE textile designer
– textiles – weaving – trends – prints – colors – illustration –
I am specialized in colors, prints and weaving for the textile and fashion industries.
I work for Italian trends office Alberto & Roy since 2010 as colorist, print designer and trendspotter. I collaborate with trends office Nelly Rodi for their print books. I also work as color designer for a belgian wall covering brand. I do prints and patterns for fashion, beachwear and home decor. I am also proudly collaborating with a French jacquard weaving factory.
And because i like to share about colors, textile and creativity, I also do courses and workshop.
So, yes, i am a multifaceted designer !
And I’m available for commissions and collaborations so let’s talk together !
Others projects :
In Brussels, I am part of the collective “Cuistax” and “la limite” which are editing risoprinting fanzines.
With the landscaper Anne-Lise Monnet, I ran the project HASHTAG Prairie, about biodiversity and public space and we won the Jury Price of Lyon City Design.
Since 2015, I am also part of SEEDS Brussels, a collective exploring the connexions between people and plants… We do plantswaps in Brussels, Paris and Milano and creative workshops for kids and adults.
Pierre Antoine Vettorello
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The work of Pierre Antoine Vettorello focuses on using textile design and clothes as a foundation for narrative. He makes sculptural and statement silhouettes that represent militancy and poetry. Some are inspired by military technologies, ordinary materials, West African textiles and materials, and methods learned during tours and workshops. As a designer, he seeks to incorporate hand-made processes and discarded elements into the creation of clothes and forms in order to center them in his work. As a human being and a scholar, he is challenging our personal relationship with our sartorial past, as well as how we manufacture mythologies about ‘designers’ in Western nations, repeating colonial practices. He identifies how we view and get inspiration from the African continent, as well as how we interact with it.
Vettorello received the ASVOF Diane Pernet award in 2010 and Arise Award in 2011.
He is French-born & Ivorian, grew up in Bordeaux, now works and lives in Brussels (Belgium). He is a Ph.D. research fellow at the University of Antwerp and Sint Lucas Antwerp School of Arts.