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textiles

Textiles offer boundless opportunities for bringing alive ideas with children. Textiles are lively and flexible, visually captivating and invite a sense of embodiment...

 

...they embrace you!

The Textiles book displayed with different strings, threads and ribbons with semi-transparent fabric
A child is wrapped up in a brightly coloured cloth, they are moving and their arms are raised
The more we build a relationship with textiles the more we are likely to connect with them in a way that they can represent our shared thinking and learning with children.

flow

stitch

Many textiles are woven together an combined to form a colourful work

unfolding

The cover and spread in the Textiles book: Threads of creativity: Textiles for discovery, Textiles for enjoying...

Take a peek inside

references

  1. Popova, M., (nd) Brain Pickings. Descartes on Wonderment. https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/11/22/descartes-wonderment/
     

  2. Cadwell, L. B. (1997). Bringing Reggio home: An innovative approach to early childhood education. Teachers College Press (P.44)
     

  3. Vecchi, V. (2010). Art and creativity in Reggio Emilia: Exploring the role and potential of Ateliers in Early Childhood Education. Routledge. p.10 
     

  4. Kind, S., Vintimilla, C. D., & Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (2018, September). Material choreographies: Fabric as a living language of exchange. Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Emilia Exchange. P.42.
     

  5. Miro cited in Tullet, H. and Van der Linden (2022). Herve Tullet's Art of Play: Images and Inspirations from a Life of Radical Creativity. Chronicle Books. P.8.

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