20 visitors from Slovenia, Poland and Greece, students and young people up to 29 years old, mainly from Schools of Fine Arts and Architecture learned about wool processing as a set of sustainability-driven practice. They experienced the life cycle of wool, from its utilitarian use to its utilization in creative/artistic practices and recycling or reuse.

Knots & Patterns
Knots and Patterns is a collaborative project promoting and preserving the European intangible cultural heritage of textile knowledge and practices in the context of sustainability, by developing database storytelling as a practice and methodology.
During the project (2025-2026) partners from Slovenia, Greece, and Poland develop a participatory research programme for young artists and researchers to critically reflect on sustainable methods of textile heritage production, engaging with local communities that safeguard them, and with their spaces and landscapes of collective memory. The aim is to document local textile heritages through visual-, textual- or audio-based media and new media, such as sketches, photography, soundscapes, video art, poetry, 3D, and more. This process is carried out through fieldwork research, employing ethnographic methods and participatory research. The objective is to foster an ethically grounded understanding and experience of textile heritage as living practices and knowledge connected to local communities and their environments of practice.
The project’s outcome is the creation of databases that digitally record the creative documentation of young artists and cultural professionals in the form of structured open data by employing crowdsourcing, and the development of an open-source digital storytelling approach (database storytelling) that utilises these databases and presents them through digital cartography in an interactive map interface designed for exploratory discovery.
The programme includes a webinar series exploring data representation and digital storytelling in the field of intangible cultural heritage, a 3-day workshop expedition in Ioannina (Greece) recording textile heritage by artistic and participatory means, 6-week residencies for collectively creating art connected with local textile heritages in Kranj (Slovenia), Gdansk (Poland) and Ioannina, and a curated travelling exhibition presenting the produced artworks and documentation.

Partners: BIEN Textile Art Biennial (Carnica Institute), National Museum in Gdańsk–Department of Ethnography, Biennale of Western Balkans.