Practice Held in Common

The Linen Project Exhibition
08 – 10 July 2022, this Friday to Sunday
Kortestraat 27, Arnhem
Open to visitors from 14:00 – 19:00 hours

The Linen Project shares its activities and their various outcomes so far during this presentation in Arnhem. Everyone is welcome!

The exhibition offers the opportunity to get acquainted with the Linnen Kavels, alongside material outcomes from the Shared Stewardship initiative, the Co-Design exchanges, and the explored industrial manufacturing process. Live demonstrations of hand-processing flax into linen will also take place. The team and participants of The Linen Project will be present to share their experiences.

Are you interested but unable to attend during the planned exhibition visiting hours? Please contact [email protected] and we will get in touch with you. See the link in bio for more information and to subscribe to their mailing list.

Photo of fibre yielded from the Shared Stewardship 2020 and 2021 flax harvests by Loes Schepens.

The Linen Project Exhibition
08 – 10 July 2022, this Friday to Sunday
Kortestraat 27, Arnhem
Open to visitors from 14:00 – 19:00 hours

The Linen Project shares its activities and their various outcomes so far during this presentation in Arnhem. Everyone is welcome!

The exhibition offers the opportunity to get acquainted with the Linnen Kavels, alongside material outcomes from the Shared Stewardship initiative, the Co-Design exchanges, and the explored industrial manufacturing process. Live demonstrations of hand-processing flax into linen will also take place. The team and participants of The Linen Project will be present to share their experiences.

Are you interested but unable to attend during the planned exhibition visiting hours? Please contact [email protected] and we will get in touch with you. See the link in bio for more information and to subscribe to our mailing list for future activities.

Photo of the Shared Stewardship's 2021 flax harvest being brought in from the field by Rob Velker.

Lawin Ramelinck

One asked the question who are you? and I wonder why, what do they seek to know? And what do I seek or need to share? Do I simply start by saying my name and follow up with my profession, and skills that I possess? I am Lawin Ramelinck and? Now what? What ‘’label’’ shall I give myself today? Perhaps, the artist who makes ‘’..?..’’garments and drawings, ‘’the artist who brings his imaginary world to life’’, creating a surrealistic reality of strange and unusual art,‘’ De kunstenaar’’, who revisits his dreams and nightmares through fashion and art, creating a dark enchanted atmosphere of gloomy tales, or just ‘’the strange artist, known for his dark, light, melancholic gloomy and mysterious style of artwork’’.

The students of a Master Program Practice Held in Common will organize an exhibition from the 30th of June till the 3rd of July, 2022.

The exhibition will be a showcase of their final works, individual and collaborative projects as well as a shared space for interactive workshops and performances.

It is a public open event therefore anyone interested in visiting their exhibition is very welcome!

Helen Cheng

Welcome to… DAPLACE! Being inspired by the ballroom and drag culture, it is a queendom👑 of glitz and glam✨, where you can fully express yourselves by slaying fashion together. It’s a combination of makeup💄, movement💃🏻, decorating💎, dressing up👗 & characters🎭. Nothing is more important than having fun and freedom! 💍💍💍👯‍
In this edition, DIVA KITCHEN, we are serving you a housediva eleganza with elements of food, fashion and of course, FUN. We will decorate (ourselves), make food before we have a moment of celebration.

Who?
People who want to explore the colorful side of fashion and community.
Adults Only, 6 available spots.
Language?
English.
When and Where?
2022/07/02 13:00-15:00 Rozet Historische Kelders
Registration / More info?
[email protected]

Can’t wait to see you there👯👫👬👭

The students of a Master Program Practice Held in Common will organize an exhibition from the 30th of June till the 3rd of July, 2022.

The exhibition will be a showcase of their final works, individual and collaborative projects as well as a shared space for interactive workshops and performances.

It is a public open event therefore anyone interested in visiting their exhibition is very welcome!

Helen Cheng

Welcome to… DAPLACE! Being inspired by the ballroom and drag culture, it is a queendom👑 of glitz and glam✨, where you can fully express yourselves by slaying fashion together. It’s a combination of makeup💄, movement💃🏻, decorating💎, dressing up👗 & characters🎭. Nothing is more important than having fun and freedom! 💍💍💍👯‍
In this edition, DIVA KITCHEN, we are serving you a housediva eleganza with elements of food, fashion and of course, FUN. We will decorate (ourselves), make food before we have a moment of celebration.

Who?
People who want to explore the colorful side of fashion and community.
Adults Only, 6 available spots.
Language?
English.
When and Where?
2022/07/02 13:00-15:00 Rozet Historische Kelders
Registration / More info?
[email protected]

Can’t wait to see you there👯👫👬👭

Research track the Linen Project
Recently a lot has happened in the Linen Project. Last month the flax field at Netherlands Open Air Museum was seeded, according to tradition, exactly 100 days after the new year. This year the heirloom flax varieties Fries Witbloei, Fries Paarsbloei, Solido and Saskia as well as the ‘modern’ variety Natasja were sown, using a manually driven seed drill.

The Linen Stewards of 2022 sowed their flax field at local organic farm De Horsterhof on 23 April. A little later than 100 days after the new year, but hopefully benefitting from additional rainfall in between. With gentle sunshine on the day, less gentle wind gusts meant that the farm's tried and trusted hand-driven seed drill was used to place the seeds directly in the soil, rather than casting the seeds by hand as the linen stewards had intended.

On Friday the 22nd of April opened the exhibition ‘In Search of the Pluriverse’ at Het Nieuwe Instituut. This exhibition encounters alternative perspectives, radical imaginations and a world in which many worlds can thrive and shows the Linen Stewards contributions amongst others. A felted flax bodywarmer, with material developed by linen steward Heleen Klopper contains a textile handwoven by Eva Klee from linen yarn spun from The Linen Project’s sublime 2019 flax harvest. This forms a ‘safety net’ for the shorter, brittle fibres from the Shared Stewardship 2020 flax crop. The felting properties of wool are used to fuse these into one fabric. Working together with fellow linen stewards of 2020, Sebastiaan Kramer and Sjaak Hullekes, the design of a bodywarmer emerged. Besides the felted flax bodywarmer the collective garment makers’ work in progress is on view in the exhibition.

Last but definitely not least, recently the first Linnen Kavels pre-order and introduction day took place. The second event will be on June 10 in Duiven. Find more information in the previous post and in the bio of

1, 2, 3, 4: Photo’s Rob Velker
5, 6, 7, 8: Photo courtesy of Heleen Klopper
9: Photo by Sebastiaan Kramer
10: Photo courtesy of Melanie Bomans
Find the full image credits in the comment section.