JENNIFER KEUSGEN
JENNIFER KEUSGEN
JENNIFER KEUSGEN

Fabelhafte Stickereien
Fables serve to convey moral lessons or life wisdoms in an entertaining way. They often use animals or other anthropomorphic figures to illustrate human behaviors and character traits. These fable creatures can be friendly, hostile, or neutral towards humans and often carry symbolic or allegorical meanings. Thus, they not only reflect the time in which they were created but also society as a whole. Their significance can change over time, be reinterpreted, and adapted to the present day. But what might a contemporary fable look like? What should fables and their creatures embody today?

In the course “Stitching New Worlds,” students were guided to engage deeply with these questions and to familiarize themselves with various historical embroidery techniques. Working in pairs, they playfully and experimentally developed hybrid creatures that, as wanderers between textile worlds, tell their own unique fable. The students learned to translate their designs into embroidery-ready patterns using specialized software and experimented with different threads and embroidery techniques. Finally, they brought their ideas to life using a ZSK 12-needle embroidery machine.

 

WS 23/24 Stitching New Worlds
Students: Rosa Djuga, Sarah Frick, Annika Frölich, Antonia Gauss, Lucy Guth, Lea Jaeger, Felicitas Pfister, Leonie Walter, Natalie Zielke, Maura Zulik

Poster Design: Emilie Bogner

Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
     Exhibition May 13 - October 31, 2024, Library

Cyclia & the Kaleidoscope of Emotions by Leonie Walter & Maura Zulic. is a textile book that presents sketch-like thoughts and impressions on menstruation and PMS. It vividly depicts the emotional ups and downs and invites an open approach to the topic. Cyclia, a mythical menstruation creature, breaks taboos, educates, dispels myths, and promotes awareness and sensitivity. 

Fadenwick by Antonia Gauß & Lucy Ann Guth. The mythical creature Fadenwick is a hybrid of a moth and a spider. Unlike moths, it repairs textiles using its spider legs and threads: mending holes, embroidering patches, and reinforcing thin areas so that clothing can be worn longer.In a creative dialogue, a layered embroidery design was developed that can mend holes and represents the mythical Fadenwick. 

In Yak We Trust by Felicitas Pfister & Natalie Zielke, features various embroideries of the mythical creature "Yakmethyst," depicted as a yak adorned with healing stones. The focus was on experimental use of the embroidery machine, complemented by silk painting and fuzzy textures as a base. The designs are suitable as large back-panel embroideries, small patches, or repeated patterns for all-over garment decoration.

The Dance Between Light and Darkness by Lea Jaeger & Sarah Frick. This project transforms elegant everyday clothing into visible fashion for road safety through reflective embroidery designs. Inspired by the grasshopper and the moth, the fable tells of “Grünzirp,” a grasshopper who dares to enter the feared night and discovers its beauty. The "Grünzirp" is the central motif of the embroidery designs, with its wing structure and coloration serving as the basis for the patterns.

Eldoria by Rosa Djuga & Annika Frölich, is a magical textile collection for children’s rooms that combines embroidery and print in a visually and tactilely harmonious way. The fabrics feature small, mystical forest creatures with special abilities to protect their habitat. An accompanying fable invites viewers to discover these beings within the design and immerse themselves in their enchanted world.

JENNIFER KEUSGEN

Fabelhafte Stickereien
Fables serve to convey moral lessons or life wisdoms in an entertaining way. They often use animals or other anthropomorphic figures to illustrate human behaviors and character traits. These fable creatures can be friendly, hostile, or neutral towards humans and often carry symbolic or allegorical meanings. Thus, they not only reflect the time in which they were created but also society as a whole. Their significance can change over time, be reinterpreted, and adapted to the present day. But what might a contemporary fable look like? What should fables and their creatures embody today?

In the course “Stitching New Worlds,” students were guided to engage deeply with these questions and to familiarize themselves with various historical embroidery techniques. Working in pairs, they playfully and experimentally developed hybrid creatures that, as wanderers between textile worlds, tell their own unique fable. The students learned to translate their designs into embroidery-ready patterns using specialized software and experimented with different threads and embroidery techniques. Finally, they brought their ideas to life using a ZSK 12-needle embroidery machine.

 

WS 23/24 Stitching New Worlds
Students: Rosa Djuga, Sarah Frick, Annika Frölich, Antonia Gauss, Lucy Guth, Lea Jaeger, Felicitas Pfister, Leonie Walter, Natalie Zielke, Maura Zulik

Poster Design: Emilie Bogner

Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
     Exhibition May 13 - October 31, 2024, Library

Cyclia & the Kaleidoscope of Emotions by Leonie Walter & Maura Zulic. is a textile book that presents sketch-like thoughts and impressions on menstruation and PMS. It vividly depicts the emotional ups and downs and invites an open approach to the topic. Cyclia, a mythical menstruation creature, breaks taboos, educates, dispels myths, and promotes awareness and sensitivity. 

Fadenwick by Antonia Gauß & Lucy Ann Guth. The mythical creature Fadenwick is a hybrid of a moth and a spider. Unlike moths, it repairs textiles using its spider legs and threads: mending holes, embroidering patches, and reinforcing thin areas so that clothing can be worn longer.In a creative dialogue, a layered embroidery design was developed that can mend holes and represents the mythical Fadenwick. 

In Yak We Trust by Felicitas Pfister & Natalie Zielke, features various embroideries of the mythical creature "Yakmethyst," depicted as a yak adorned with healing stones. The focus was on experimental use of the embroidery machine, complemented by silk painting and fuzzy textures as a base. The designs are suitable as large back-panel embroideries, small patches, or repeated patterns for all-over garment decoration.

The Dance Between Light and Darkness by Lea Jaeger & Sarah Frick. This project transforms elegant everyday clothing into visible fashion for road safety through reflective embroidery designs. Inspired by the grasshopper and the moth, the fable tells of “Grünzirp,” a grasshopper who dares to enter the feared night and discovers its beauty. The "Grünzirp" is the central motif of the embroidery designs, with its wing structure and coloration serving as the basis for the patterns.

Eldoria by Rosa Djuga & Annika Frölich, is a magical textile collection for children’s rooms that combines embroidery and print in a visually and tactilely harmonious way. The fabrics feature small, mystical forest creatures with special abilities to protect their habitat. An accompanying fable invites viewers to discover these beings within the design and immerse themselves in their enchanted world.