Mossellany Monday #4: Slow Stitch
Art and Energy have been working with Plymouth Culture on a series of Creative Climate Conversations. Our conversations with creatives across Plymouth helped shaped our new book Be More Moss: A Mossellany of Questions for Life.
Each week we’re going to spotlight a simple activity from the book for you to try, it could be on your own, with friends & family or with a community group:
🌿SLOW STITCH: The Art of Needlework: A Timeless Human Tradition
Did you know that the oldest needles discovered to date are over 60,000 years old? It's true, textiles have been an integral part of human culture for as long as we can remember. In fact, working with yarn has been proven to have a significant positive impact on mental health.
Take your time, enjoy the process, and don't worry about making everything perfect. Learning to darn and repair things, as well as creating your own textiles, can help build resilience.
Art and Energy’s Jenny has repaired her dress with Be More Moss themed embroidery!
We’d love to see your needlework, you can share it with us on our BurytheGiant.Club which is free to join and everyone is welcome.
Art and Energy put together Be More Moss: A Mossellany of Questions for Life for anyone who likes to ponder, doodle and have new ideas - we invite you to draw on your imagination and get creative with this miscellany of facts and quotes about marvellous mosses, with activity pages waiting for your pen and stories of our past and future.
We've designed this book so that it can be used on your own, or as a group activity. It's full of moss-inspired activities and prompts that help people bypass eco-anxiety and think about things in their lives that are relevant to responding to the climate and ecological emergency. It's suitable for teenagers, young adults, older persons, parents or grandparents.
Be More Moss: A Mossellany of Questions for Life is available to read and download, free of charge: https://issuu.com/.../final_be_more_moss_a_mossellany_of...
Treat yourself to a printed copy for £15: https://www.artandenergy.org/.../be-more-moss-a...
Read more about our work with Plymouth Culture and the Creative Climate Conversations project: https://www.artandenergy.org/.../creative-climate...
