🧶 As part of the exhibition “The Whole World a Bauhaus”, Zuzeum Art Museum invites you to a creative knitting workshop with Danish textile artist and designer Helga Isager, who has created a special Bauhaus-inspired collection.

📅 Saturday, 13 December, 12:00–15:00
🎟️ Ticket: 35 EUR. Tickets here.
🗣️ The event will be held in English, but the task can also be explained in Latvian.

Helga Isager on her inspiration for the 1919 Collection: “When I first started the research for this collection, a design for a textile art piece by Gunta Stöltz especially captured me. I found it obvious to use the beautiful colours and the abundance of geometrical patterns offered in the draft for knitwear. This piece alone could have been the base for an entire collection. During the process, however, the beautiful works by weavers Anni Albers and Otti Berger, also offered great inspiration.”

Before the practical works begin, Helga will show and talk about the designs from the 1919 Collection. Afterwards, the participants will knit swatches in some of the techniques Helga Isager has used; Jaquard knitting, double knitting and Intarsia knitting. It’s necessary that you can cast on stitches, knit and purl, but otherwise everyone can join!

We will provide yarn for the swatches, and participants should bring the following:

  • Needles 3 – 6mm
  • Stitch markers

⏳ Workshop duration is 3 hours.

ABOUT HELGA ISAGER

For more than two decades, Helga Isager has been a key innovator in knitting – both as a craft and as a fashion phenomenon. As co-owner and Creative Director of Isager, she is especially known for her ability to merge classical knitting techniques with the aesthetics of contemporary fashion. Helga’s collections are based on craftsmanship, but with her sense of aesthetics and fashion, she manages to strike an expression that is at once modern and timeless. Helga Isager has over the years held numerous courses and workshops around the world. She is behind several knitting books published both in Denmark and internationally.

Helga Isager has studied Japanese language and culture at the University of Copenhagen, and she still has a deep connection with Japan, and visits the country often.

This event is organised in cooperation with Goethe Institut Riga and The Danish Cultural Institute.

*By attending this event, you agree to have photos or videos of you or your children taken for Zuzeum marketing purposes. You can refuse to be photographed or filmed by informing the photographer or camera person.