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Last spring, ‘The Weavers Co-ordination’ set up a competition for an exhibition-tour in Italy and Belgium around the following theme: "La borsa accessorio necessario" or "The bag accessory / necessary”. The initiative was a joint venture with the Foundation for the Arts and Crafts in Florence’, the ‘Florence City Council’, the ‘Royal Academy of Fine Arts’ in Antwerp and the ‘Friends of the School Leumann’

My creation was selected as one of the finalists and will be displayed on an expo-tour in Firenze and later this year in my hometown Antwerp, Belgium.

For this project, I developed a purse based on the principle of an envelope.
The design was inspired on the art of origami folding; e.g. the barn swallow model.
The materials I selected and processed were:
- a page from a Japanese newspaper which I manipulated to make it tougher and more flexible but also to give it varnished finish.
- a blue cotton cloth that was finished on the outside with silk screen prints and manual painting.
- a simple gold-colored embroidery on the inside.

I used a brown cardboard box and stuffed it with origami folded birds as a filling, to protect the purse during transport.

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