This workshop is part of a weekend with textile artists Katarina Brieditis and Katarina Evans, focusing on reuse, transformation, and textile experimentation. In this hands-on session, you will learn how to braid strips of T-shirts and explore how these braids can be combined into new textile forms, such as rugs and other items. Braiding rags into rugs is a traditional technique, but here it serves as a starting point for contemporary design exploration.
As you work, you will see how multicoloured braids create shifting patterns depending on the order in which colours are used, the number of strands in each braid, and the way the braids are combined and stitched together. This opens up an almost unlimited range of design possibilities. Katarina and Katarina will guide you through the full process: cutting T-shirts into strips, braiding up to seven strands together, and finally assembling the braids into different structures and designs. Along the way, you will explore how the same technique can produce both robust textiles suitable for rugs and more refined expressions for other applications.
By the end of the workshop, you will have begun writing on your own samples and developing ideas for continuing your work independently. You will also leave with a new perspective: that materials often considered waste can be reworked through design within the constraints of a limited supply of reclaimed materials.
Level: No previous experience required. Please bring: old T-shirts in at least three different colours (preferably garments that would otherwise be discarded), scissors, pins, large tapestry needle. Registration from 21. August 2026.











