Seminarieparken
May 2024
As part of the biennal Craft Day’s program, representatives from the Morus Project held silk workshops in Seminarieparken – a public garden in Gothenburg where an old mulberry tree grows. For the coming season of home-sericulture, leaves from this specific tree will be used to feed the new worms. The workshop included a tree hunt for kids, who were given a map consisting of clues to find the old mulberry tree.
The event was realised with support of Gothenburg City.
Silk Museum of Soufli
April 2024
On the occasion of this year’s European Artistic Craft Days (2-7/4) and in the framework of the temporary exhibition titled Morus, the Morus group in collaboration with Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) organises creative workshops for kids from communal and minority schools in the region, taking place in the Silk Museum in Soufli and at a nursery school in Roussa village.
Cabane Athens
September 2023
Due to the catastrophic fires in the Evros region, the scheduled workshops of the Morus team at the Silk Museum in Soufli (PIOP) was postponed. In place of the postponed workshops, we held workshops and presentations of our project in Athens. We were joined by visual artist Deborah Jeromin for an online presentation of her project Parachute Silk and her film Riven Threads.
Galleri Apoteket
July 2023
Silk thread-workshop outside the gallery space at Roma Kungsgård.
Visby Botanical Garden
July 2023
Thread-making in the DBW’s Botanical Garden in Visby, next to the historical sites of Silverhättan – where mulberry plantations were established in 1840.
Blesselska gården, Fårö
July 2023
The first Morus silk thread-workshop took place on Fårö. On this particular farm, Elisabeth Blessell (after marriage: Kahl) was born in 1791. Elisabeth Kahl was a teacher in sericulture in Visby from 1840-1845. Her students were a group of young women and widows at an institution called Arbetshuset. We are very grateful to the owners who welcomed us to their home.
Morus project 