SOUTACHE workshop — learn how to create very unique jewellery
The dates, times and themes of these workshops are:
13th December, 10 am — basic
14th December, 10 am — intermediate
The workshops for beginners give you the exciting opportunity to try your hand at making your own soutache earrings, pendants and brooches. To make these, you will learn the following techniques:
— embroidering the braid around the first stone
— sewing cords
— sewing and embroidering beads
— making loops
— finishing touches.
These skills will give you a good basis for creating more complicated and diverse forms in the future.
Workshop instructor: Katarzyna Biedrycka
Workshops participants will be allowed to keep their works.
Workshop Prices:
A single workshop entrance fee is 59 zł (basic) and 69 zł (intermediate).
A pass for all two workshops costs 120 zł
Place: BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice
Contact us if you want to take part or have any question:
phone +48 32 259 90 40 extension number 13
or Aneta Zasucha phone +48 510 853 090
edukacja@bwa.katowice.pl
Workshops dates might be subject to change if not enough participants have enrolled.
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People have striven to appear more attractive since antiquity. Precious stones, noble metals, jewellery, architecture, fashion and interior design have always marked not only social status, but also a person's taste, pride, and understanding of culture and art.
Soutache was developed in France in the first half of the 14th century. This embroidery technique, which was initially used in the production of women’s dresses and jewellery, soon became an independent art field. At some point, Dutch masters had a hand in it, developing the technique, also associated with famous Russian weaving.
Soutache embroidery gained enormous popularity in Russia during Peter the Great's rule, and was widely used to decorate men's outfits. Then it slowly went out of fashion, almost forgotten by the 19th and 20th centuries, only used to produce theatre costumes.
Soutache owes its second life to the Israeli fashion designer Michal Negrin, who re-discovered it at the beginning of the 1990s. She revived it as decorative art, using it for jewellery production, but it was Israeli jeweller Dori Chenderi, who brought it back into the world of fashion.
Today, you can find various soutache jewellery and accessories, including necklaces, brooches, earrings, bracelets, handbags, fans, cufflinks and safety pins. Each product is unique, as there are no doubles and no mass production. Soutache jewellery comes in a wide range of colours, with a rich diversity of natural semi-precious stones and minerals, it is characterised by an extraordinary lightness. Each piece would make a wonderful gift, bringing out a woman's beauty, personality and style.
