Pocket making experiment – Open University
On 6th June I was invited to participate in a workshop called The Unfinished in Architecture, Design and Planning, run by Kim Kullman from the Open Space Research Centre at the Open University. This is…
Feminism in London 2014 – Suffrage, cycling and sewing: a story telling (& making) workshop
I really enjoyed my workshop at this years Feminism in London (FIL) Conference. Over 25 people attended and made a great audience for my introductory talk and the (all too brief)…
Bloomer Making Day II – review
It seemed only right that I should transport all of the sewing equipment for the Bloomer Making Workshop to LMNH by bicycle, so I hired one of Alix Stredwick's fantastic…
Bicycle Bloomer Making Workshop II
We are running our next Bicycle Bloomer Making Workshop at Look Mum No Hands on Saturday 5th April. UPDATE: The workshop is now FULL but we have added a waiting list!…
Show & Tell #1: Dresses, Drinks and Data!
The first Show & Tell event for the ESRC funded Transmissions and Entanglements research project featuring our work-in-progress on ‘Freedom of Movement; the bike, the bloomer and female cyclist in late C19th Britain’ was…
Bloomer making session I
I was asked to do a guest lecture by Ruby Hoette for Goldsmiths' new MA fashion course. I suggested a DiY Bloomer Making Workshop and Ruby offered a whole day with the…
16mm film making workshop
I am pleased to be able to use the larger Transmissions and Entanglements project to help to expose and train Goldsmiths MA Visual Sociology students in 16mm filmmaking at No.W.Here.…
Bloomers – so many variations
These are the results from the first bloomer making workshop. The students were given two bloomer patterns; full and narrow (this is not the tailored version). We were delighted to see…