October 2025
T&M is pleased to share our workshop program working with the Tajima Rapid Prototyping Digital Embroidery Machine and Software. In this series of workshops, cluster members will be introduced to working with digital embroidery techniques with expert instruction by Textiles and Materiality research support technician Genevieve Moisan. These workshops are intended to ladder a skillset in digital embroidery fabrication and experimentation from the ground up.
Drawing with Threads
October 3rd or October 6th, 2025 | 1-4 PM
Location: EV 10.725
This hands-on workshop introduce participants to the essentials of using embroidery software with the Tajima embroidery machine. Learn how to create, design, and format your own embroidery files, ready to be uploaded to the machine.
How do we visualise information? In this workshop, we invite you to consider how data may be materialised through the transformation of vectors into simple embroidered forms.
You will have an opportunity to see your vector drawings come to life in real time as threads on the embroidery machine.
Please e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register. This workshop is open to Textiles & Materiality members. You may register for Drawing with Threads either on October 3rd or October 6th.
Facilitator: Genevieve Moisan
Clusters: Textiles & Materiality
Merit of Making
October 20th or October 24th, 2025 | 1-4 PM
Location: EV 10.725
This advanced digital embroidery workshop offers participants a chance to learn how to produce an embroidered patch on the Tajima Embroidery Machine, including how to integrate different textures and embroidery stitches within the design.
Embroidered patches have a long and rich history cross-culturally, functioning as symbols of status, achievement, and identity within communities. Participants will reflect on what skills and statuses are undervalued within contemporary society. How can a merit badge bring attention to invisible, unseen, or otherwise unappreciated forms of knowledge?
Participants will learn design techniques and software basics, required to embroider different shapes, textures, and images, in order to make their own merit badges using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster.
Please e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register for the workshop. This workshop is open to Textiles & Materiality members. You may register for Merit of Making either on October 20th or 24th.
Facilitator: Genevieve Moisan
Clusters: Textiles & Materiality
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