Artist Dovile Sakalauskaite will lead wool felting workshops inspired by symbolic flower motifs, including the Lithuanian rūta, alongside other felting and floral traditions & meanings from across Central and Eastern Europe.

The sessions introduce felting as a longstanding Lithuanian craft, exploring its role in everyday life, clothing, and decorative arts.

Participants will experiment with wool to create their own felted flowers, bringing personal interpretation to these traditional motifs.

Exhibition

The programme will culminate in a public exhibition on 3rd and 4th July in Boston, bringing together the works created throughout the workshop series. The exhibition will showcase a range of participant-led creations, highlighting the diversity of materials, techniques, and cultural traditions explored.

Kristina Skei will guide participants in creating traditional Lithuanian straw gardens (delicate hanging ornaments known as sodai) exploring their cultural meaning and geometric structure.

Beginning with an introduction to their symbolism, including connections to time, nature, and balance, participants will learn how similar forms appear across Baltic and Eastern European traditions.

Exhibition

The programme will culminate in a public exhibition on 3rd and 4th July in Boston, bringing together the works created throughout the workshop series. The exhibition will showcase a range of participant-led creations, highlighting the diversity of materials, techniques, and cultural traditions explored.

Kristina Skei will guide participants in creating traditional Lithuanian straw gardens (delicate hanging ornaments known as sodai) exploring their cultural meaning and geometric structure.

Beginning with an introduction to their symbolism, including connections to time, nature, and balance, participants will learn how similar forms appear across Baltic and Eastern European traditions.

Exhibition

The programme will culminate in a public exhibition on 3rd and 4th July in Boston, bringing together the works created throughout the workshop series. The exhibition will showcase a range of participant-led creations, highlighting the diversity of materials, techniques, and cultural traditions explored.

Textiles artist Madara Vimba will lead embroidery workshops inspired by traditional flower motifs and ethnographic symbols from Latvia and across Central and Eastern Europe.

The sessions begin with an introduction to Latvian ethnographic signs, focusing on floral motifs and their meanings within folk culture. Participants will then have a chance to explore these ideas through hands-on embroidery, while engaging with wider transnational traditions and contributing their own interpretations.

All materials will be provided. Participants are also welcome to bring their own embroidery materials or works-in-progress if they already have an embroidery practice, as well as any books, references, or sources of inspiration they would like to share with the group. The session is intended as an informal space for exchange, conversation, and learning from one another.

Exhibition

The programme will culminate in a public exhibition on 3rd and 4th July in Boston, bringing together the works created throughout the workshop series. The exhibition will showcase a range of participant-led creations, highlighting the diversity of materials, techniques, and cultural traditions explored.

Textiles artist Madara Vimba will lead embroidery workshops inspired by traditional flower motifs and ethnographic symbols from Latvia and across Central and Eastern Europe.

The sessions begin with an introduction to Latvian ethnographic signs, focusing on floral motifs and their meanings within folk culture. Participants will then have a chance to explore these ideas through hands-on embroidery, while engaging with wider transnational traditions and contributing their own interpretations.

All materials will be provided. Participants are also welcome to bring their own embroidery materials or works-in-progress if they already have an embroidery practice, as well as any books, references, or sources of inspiration they would like to share with the group. The session is intended as an informal space for exchange, conversation, and learning from one another.

Exhibition

The programme will culminate in a public exhibition on 3rd and 4th July in Boston, bringing together the works created throughout the workshop series. The exhibition will showcase a range of participant-led creations, highlighting the diversity of materials, techniques, and cultural traditions explored.