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Historical Embroidery News...

China: teaching & online classes

12/11/2018

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Jetlagged and with a nasty cold, but full of wonderful stories about my recent teaching trip to China, I sluggishly slump behind my laptop. To add insult to injury, my dearest coffee machine died on me when we got home from Beijing on Saturday night. I nearly killed someone this morning who carelessly suggested that I could easily survive on instant coffee until my beloved machine gets repaired... Let's talk of happier things, shall we!?

Packing my 24 days in China into one blog post might be a little too much :). Instead, I will write several posts in the coming weeks on my adventures in the far East. We'll start today with the actual teaching. I arrived a few days early in Shanghai and was picked up by Edith, a textile enthusiast from Hong Kong, who had organised the workshop. We immediately got on really well! We decided to take the bus to Hangzhou; my first taste of the excellent public transport services in China. After being dropped off in the centre of Hangzhou, we took a taxi to the hotel situated near the famous West Lake. As Bad Bayersoien - Hangzhou takes nearly 24 hours, I was ready to slip between the covers in my lovely hotel room. 
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After a delicious breakfast the next morning, we crossed the street to visit the National Silk Museum. The museum is quite large with several buildings housing different exhibitions related to silk. The buildings sit in a beautifully landscaped park. Exploring the ground floor of the silk road exhibition alone took me about two hours! In the afternoon, I decided to take a walk and explore the famous West Lake. As it was the weekend, many Chinese holiday makers had the same idea. The place is famous for getting your wedding pictures taken and the whole area is an important inland holiday destination. I ended up visiting a Buddhist temple, the tombs of some revolutionaries and ended with Jasmin tea overlooking the lake. As there where not many other Westerners, the Chinese looked upon me with great curiosity :).
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On Sunday, we prepped the classroom for the workshop starting on Monday. I met my assistant and translator Clover who has studied weaving in London. She did a great job translating my English into Chinese during the workshop! And in between, we ate :). Not only breakfast was a treat, the local eateries were fabulous too! Me using chopsticks for the first time was hilarious and I must confess that I don't miss them...
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On Monday, the teaching started. The group of students was very divers. I had museum staff, art teachers, fashion designers and even two craftsmen from Tibet. They were all very eager to start!
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Although the official classroom was in the basement, we decided to use the lovely weather and stitched outside a lot. Sitting in front of an old sericulture farm was a favourite with all of us until the mosquitos found out about it too... We strung a line and hung up the result of the previous day to talk about the experience. I was very impressed with my students as most of them had finished their projects overnight! However, getting them to critique their work publicly or express their experiences with the particular embroidery technique, wasn't easy.
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Other favourite stitching spots were the cafe...
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...and the gallery of the fashion building. Those large windows were fantastic.
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When teaching the goldwork leaf on Thursday, I discovered a mistake with the scale of the leaf. Oopsy! Time for a last-minute change: add some chipping to the original design and all was well again. It shows that no matter how well you prepare, mistakes can always happen. Adapt and carry on! We ended the day with a Chinese high-tea organised by the students. They had brought all sorts of delicacies for me to try. Yummy!
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The schedule on Friday and Saturday changed a little. We had the opportunity to pair my talk on medieval embroidery with that of a local master embroiderer on Friday. We had all hoped that she would talk on the techniques she used in her embroideries or the thought process that went into them. Unfortunately, she didn't. It was more a sales talk. However, some of her work was really nice and unusual. It showed that she also experienced difficulties with branding her work as art.
My talk went really well. The museum did record it on video and as soon as I know where it is available, I will let you know. If it does not become available, I will put up the original presentation and let you know where to find that. However, it is much more fun to hear a Dutch person talk in English and have that translated into Chinese by Clover :).
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As one afternoon of the original five-day workshop was high jacked by the presentations, we decided to meet again on Saturday morning (in the original plan I would have given my presentation on Saturday). I was completely blown away by the fact that quite a few students had completed all four projects! That's the best praise a teacher can get. It shows that they really enjoyed themselves and loved the tasks I had set them. Those six days were immensely gratifying and I really had a blast! Seeing people figuring things out and going on helping others is such a great experience. I really hope they can implement the things they have learned in one way or the other.
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If you would like to work one or several of the projects I taught in China, all four are now available as online classes. Each project comes with a PDF download detailing how to get access to the instruction video. Furthermore, you'll receive a materials pack with everything needed to complete the project (fabric, threads and needles). Shipping costs are already included in the cost of the class. Choose from crewel embroidery, Schwalm embroidery, Appenzell fine whitework or goldwork embroidery. I truly hope that this format answers the prayers of those who have reminded me over the past years that they would love to do a class with me, but simply live too far away. If the new format proves to be popular, I will definitely come up with further classes! But for now, I am going to make myself a litre of bedtime tea in the hope that my jetlag can be persuaded to not wake me up at 3:00 am...
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Mabel
12/11/2018 20:22:51

Hoi Jessica wat een geweldige ervaring en een heel avontuur goed van je en die dames zullen heel blij geweest zijn met zo'n geweldige docente. Welkom terug groetjes Mabel

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Jessica Grimm link
13/11/2018 08:02:38

Dat was het zeker Mabel! Ik heb er van genoten en weer veel gezien en geleerd.

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Velia Antila
12/11/2018 21:01:15

Such a successful far away class only deserves CONGRATULATIONS. Happy to hear you had wonderful students and all went well. Your coffee maker, I assume has been replaced.
Sleep a lot until you recover form jet lag.

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Jessica Grimm link
13/11/2018 08:04:20

Thank you Velia! It has indeed be a very special adventure. On the coffee machine: with a bit of luck it will be repaired by the end of the week. Until then it is indeed Nescafe...

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Margaret Cobleigh link
13/11/2018 01:06:54

It looks and sounds like you had a fabulous trip and I am looking forward to reading more in future posts.

In the piece done in red what is the ground fabric?

Get lots of sleep! ;-)

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Jessica Grimm link
13/11/2018 08:05:59

Oh, yes, much more to share in future blog posts, Margaret! And the fabric used in the Schwalm embroidery tulip is a 40ct natural linen by Zweigart.

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Rachel link
13/11/2018 10:55:19

Good to know you had such a great time. I hope you recover from the jetlag quickly!

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Jessica Grimm link
13/11/2018 12:04:32

I am making progress, Rachel. I woke up at 4 am tonight. Three more hours and I am at my usual wake up time :)!

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Mari-jan link
13/11/2018 13:02:15

Hey Jessica,

Ben je alweer terug?! Wat ontzettend leuk voor je dat je een succesvolle trip achter de rug heb. Ik gun het je zo! Je hebt zolang geknokt voor deze erkenning :)


Veel liefs, Mari-jan

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Jessica Grimm link
13/11/2018 19:05:39

Dank je wel Mari-jan! We zijn inmiddels weer terug en proberen nu zo gauw mogelijk van de jetlag en de verkoudheid af te komen :).

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Marina
13/11/2018 16:07:59

Hi Jessica, I've been thinking about you and your trip to China. Congratulations for your work and presentation, it must have been quite an adventure! So lovely hearing from you again, seeing that your classes went well, that the students were eager to stitch and that there weren't any bigger and nastier surprises than the scale of the design. I really look forward to reading more of your stay and work in China. A big hug to you!

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Jessica Grimm link
13/11/2018 19:06:49

Thank you Marina! I will share lots more stories in further posts :).

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Dima link
13/11/2018 17:38:37

It looks like it was a wonderful experience.

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Jessica Grimm link
13/11/2018 19:07:37

Indeed it was Dima!

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Catherine link
14/11/2018 09:21:55

What a wonderful adventure! It sounds like it was very well received and that your students enjoyed it immensely. Stitching and teaching outside would have been quite the treat. I hope the jet lag leaves you soon!

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Jessica Grimm link
14/11/2018 16:34:03

It was wonderful indeed Catherine!

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