Workshop
Taking time to write down morning notes has been a habit for Tzu Li since 2021. Using words to record everyday life, experiences, emotions and feelings, became a way for Tzu Li to sort out her mind and talk to herself.
One day at the beginning of this year, Tzu Li came up with the idea of translating these morning notes into small pieces of textiles, where her passion always sits in. Furthermore, she’s attracted to the idea of regularly recording something for a while. She found a series of simple and direct, just day-after-day records, can be so powerful, so intriguing.
Inspired by each day’s deepest thoughts or feelings, Tzu Li translated these messages into her textile languages among knitting, weaving, quilting, mending, and many other techniques. Being familiar with playing with colors and textures, Tzu Li used left-over, recycled, or vintage yarns and fabrics she collected over times, and manipulated with different techniques to represent her morning notes.
Tzu Li invites the participants to interpret their days into a piece of textile.
In the workshop, participants will first write down one of their recent days, for one-page long, and then will highlight the strongest or most appealing sentences within the notes. Afterwards, Tzu Li will encourage the participants to pick fabrics, yarns, and any other appliqués, according to the emotions and feelings in those highlighted sentences. Having several textile elements in front, participants can be inspired by Tzu Li’s “50 Days of Morning Notes”, and will be guided by Tzu Li to create their own one-of-a-kind textile page.
This event also has an exhibition page, check here: Exhibition: September 7, from 12pm to 5pm.
Tzu Li Hsu is a knitwear designer and textile artist graduated from Parsons School of Design. In 2016, Tzu Li launched her knitwear label, to create and bring yarns and knits to more of those who share the same value of cherishing quality and details.
Over the past few years, with her fashion background, Tzu Li has developed from single medium of clothing to further interpretations in terms of textile throughout her creative journey. Having lived in New York, London and Taipei, Tzu Li embraces diverse cultures and experiences, which shapes her visual sensibility on textiles. Her work revolves around personal experiences and narratives in life, and continuously conveys the same context of colors and textures in diverse forms through different textile elements.