Embroidery Game: Connect the Dots!

Pera Kids
Ages 7-12

  • January 30, 2025 / 13:30

The workshop starts with a guided tour of Calculations and Coincidences and aims to develop children's fine motor skills while having fun using their imagination. Children create simple patterns on pre-prepared dotted templates with thread and a plastic embroidery needle. Then, they personalise their designs by decorating the shapes created by connecting the dots with various materials such as beads, fabrics, and buttons.

Instructor: Melike Güven
Capacity:
12 people
Duration:
90 minutes
Fee per workshop: 350 TL The event will take place at the Pera Museum.

About Melike Güven Güven graduated from Gazi University, Department of Embroidery Teaching and did her master's degree at Nişantaşı University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Textile and Fashion Design on ‘Techniques in Turkish Embroidery Art with Western Influence.’ She works as an embroidery teacher at Kağıthane Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School and aims to share her artistic vision with her students. Melike Güven, who deals with traditional embroidery techniques from a modern perspective, creates original works by transforming materials that have lost their function, such as fruit seeds, dried flowers, and jute threads, into embroidery.

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