Tag: The Netherlands

Open Call: Textile Biennial 2027 – Colonial Patterns – Netherlands

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Promotional image for the Textiel Biennale 2027 Open Call, featuring decorative textiles with black patterns and orange elements on display.

For ‘Textile Biennial 2027| Colonial Patterns‘, the Rijswijk Museum invites artists to reflect on the theme of Colonial patterns from the perspective of their own practice and perspective.

From the Open Call: “Colonial patterns are all around us; visible in the clothing we wear, the materials and fabrics we use, and the trade routes that have shaped our world. In motifs, traditions, and production processes, but also in power relations, memories, and identities.”

“Artists from all countries can submit a proposal.”

The exhibition takes place from the 8th of July to the 21st of November, 2027.

Where: Museum Rijswijk, Herenstraat 67, 2282 BR Rijswijk, Netherlands

Submission deadline: through Thursday, the 1st of October

For more information, visit the museum’s website: https://museumrijswijk.nl/tentoonstelling-open-call-textiel-biennale-2027–koloniale-patronen-373

Their Instagram: @museumrijswijk

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Of Interest: 450 km Wool March – from Texel NL to European Parliament in Brussels

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Shepherds and sheep flocks are an indispensable to biodiversity and the preservation of our natural landscapes. But they are often overlooked.

To raise awareness for shepherds and sheep flocks, a group of advocates has organised a 53-day Wool March, from Texel in the Netherlands to the European Parliament in Brussels. The March will be rally style:

“No sheep or shepherd <will> walk the entire route! We pass the hook from shepherd to shepherd, flock to flock creating a line of support for this ecological, cultural and social importance of this overlooked system”.

The walk starts on Saturday, the 22nd of August in Texel, Netherlands and arrives in Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday the 13th of October 2026.

For more information, visit the Wool March website: https://www.woolmarch.com/

Their Instagram: @woolmarch @international_wool


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Exhibition: Claudy Jongstra – Retrospective Solo Show – Netherlands

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Claudy Jongstra is renowned for her large-scale textile artworks and architectural installations that draw on her approach to working with locally raised fibres and dye plants.⁠ A retrospective solo exhibition, ‘Presence in Process – 30 Years of Art and Craft at Studio Claudy Jongstra’, will soon open.

The exhibition runs from the 18th of December 2025 to the 30th of August 2026.

Where: Cuypershuis Roermond, Pierre Cuypersstraat 1, 6041 XG Roermond, Netherlands

For more information about the exhibition, visit the museum’s website – https://cuypershuis.nl/te-zien/presence-in-process

To learn more about Claudy’s work, there is also a beautiful film here by the Louisiana Channel, a site that features videos about architects, artists, designers, musicians, and writers – https://channel.louisiana.dk/video/claudy-jongstra-weaving-the-world-together

Guild member Christine Jordan visited her studio earlier in the year – https://feltmakersireland.com/2025/11/04/of-interest-felting-adventures-in-the-netherlands-rough-circle-studio/

The artist’s Instagram: @claudyjongstra

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Open Call: Wool in Regenerative Fashion – Dutch Design Week

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Every year, during Dutch Design Week—the biggest design event in Northern Europe—the New Order of Fashion (NOOF) presents a new generation of the most forward-thinking textile and fashion talents. For the 2025 Dutch Design Week (18-26 October), they will focus on the theme of regeneration, exemplified by a deep dive into wool’s material, environmental, and cultural workings. They seek designers who work across themes like biodiversity, community, ecology, animal well-being, indigenous knowledge, decolonisation & more-than-human design.

Deadline: Friday, the 20th of June, 23:59 CEST.

For more information – https://www.neworderoffashion.com/talents/open-call-2025

Their Instagram – @new_order_of_fashion

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