PATA - Summer Courses 2025

TRADITIONAL TEXTILE ART AND EXPERIMENTAL BATIK

The programme of the workshop is addressed to those who wish to learn traditional weaving techniques through which identity is created. To those who wish to explore the possibilities of combining different fabrics, creating works made of new generation yarns or textile waste. To those who are searching for new quality and meaning, who want to discover emotions in the process of hand weaving and their effects on the final result. The aim of the course leaders is to encourage participants to play with ideas and form, to motivate them to experiment and stay open to innovations. Depending on their level of advancement, course participants will be able to use weaving frames, harness looms and tapestry looms.
Batik is an ancient Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing of textiles. The word ‘batik’ means simply ‘to dot’ and it refers to applying wax drops on a textile. The island of Java is the home of batik. It is a technique which has fascinated artists and craftsmen for centuries. In Poland the interest in the original, Javan batik first appeared at the beginning of the 20th century and is still present today.

In the proposed experimental version, the wax may be also applied by a metal pen, brush, stick, stamp or stencil. Batik will be painted freely with brushes of different width, on various supports, such as cotton, linen, paper or wood. It is a fully painterly technique which allows to create two-sided works. The light underlines the transparency of the painting and for this reason this technique can be used to create objects of applied arts, such as lamp shades, curtains, roller-blinds, etc.
During the course the artistic output of two important artists – Władyslaw Strzemiński and Katarzyna Kobro will be presented and their work may become a source of inspiration both for textile art and for batik compositions.

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Teachers

Zygmunt Łukasiewicz Assistant

Zygmunt Łukasiewicz is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He obtained his diploma in Professor Wojciech Sadley's Experimental Textile Studio in 1979. In the years 1979 - 1987 he gave lectures on fiber technologies and dying methods in the Department of Textile of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Since 2010 he has been a weaving and dying techniques instructor at the Department of Textile of the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts Łódź. He has participated in numerous collective and individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad. In 2010 he received the Medal of the Central Museum of Textiles during the 13th International Triennial of Tapestry in Łódź. He was awarded the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize at the International Exhibition of Fibre Art in Kowary, the Medal of Archidiocese of Warsaw and the 1st prize during the 8th International Open Air of Wicker Spatial Forms 'Rytmy i Sploty' in 2009. The artist is fascinated by the painterly possibilities of a classic unique textile. Cosmology and cosmogony are the insipration for his works. Since 1990 the author has been using the third dimention and movement to fully express his artistic vision. He uses his woven textiles to compose coats, jackets and capes which are full of expression. This serves the purpose of increasing the impact on the recipients by taking art into the streets. He created the "Kilimowa moda" ("Kilim Fashion") collection which was presented in Paris , Prague, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hering, Warsaw and many Polish cities. The collection was presented fours times during the International Triennial of Tapestry in Łódź.

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Zygmunt Łukasiewicz

Anna Hlebowicz Assistant

Anna Hlebowicz was born in 1986 in Sokółka in Podlasie. In Supraśl she graduated from Artur Grottger High School of Fine Arts. Then she started education at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw . In 2019 she completed her Doctoral Studies at the Faculty of Painting in Warsaw and obtained the title of doctor of arts. She specialises in textile art and different painting techniques: frescoe sgrafitto and batik in particular. The main source of inpiration is the landscape of her podhalanian hometown Krynek.