During the Thursday workshop two types of material reigned supreme: crêpe paper and embroidery floss. They appear to be different, and yet they are so similar in respect of their plasticity and multi-colouredness.
Under the guidance of, or rather inspired by Teresa Cabała and Elżbieta Drabik, the workshop participants learnt to create crêpe paper flowers the way our grandmothers and great grandmothers used to make them. The flowers were not made to just stand on their own. They were used to make fanciful palms for Palm Sunday, wedding wands and Christmas floral decorations to be suspended from the ceiling. It would be so beautiful if the tradition of making such decorations caught on again.
Tomasz Pilecki and Justyna Sekuła used little planks studded with little nails along with the embroidery floss. So little was needed to create true works of art patterned on folk motifs, and all this took place in the atmosphere of peace and relaxation.
