Arts Thread

Throughout my whole childhood spent in Narva, Estonia, I have been continuously read Slavic folkfairytales. The folktale characters’ influence have had a massive impact on my persona and can be traced in different aspects of daily life, arts, crafts and design fields are no exception. This degree work seeks to approach the yarn based craft techniques by abstracting symbols derived from Slavic folktales and their characters. The craft techniques of knitting, crocheting, weaving and patchwork are innovated by translating tale characters into wearable forms and details made out of disregarded deadstock yarn and textile craft materials. The created work of ¨PERIPETEIA¨ suggests a recontextualised collection of symbolic craft artifacts taken out of their usual context by deliberate misplacement and pairing of the given folktale character inspired garments. This choice is specifically motivated by a volatile political state in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, resulting in an atrocious war started by Russian government against the Ukrainian nation, as well as both Belarusian and Russian people being held hostage under the tyranny and dictatorship of their presidents. As a metaphor for hope for change, the staple Slavic folktale narratives and their subsequent characters need to change as well. The new unexpected story is hoped to be knitted, crocheted, woven, embellished and stitched together out of the dismissed by the previous owners’ materials.