We gather around a pile of textiles and fabric remnants and embroider motifs and words together, inspired by Karoline Ebbesen. It is a kind of collaborative work and a celebration of Ebbesen’s memory, which will later decorate the exhibition’s activity room. The workshop requires no prior knowledge; just show up as you are.

Karoline Ebbesen was very skilled at embroidery and developed her own techniques and unique threaded design language. Her white stitches are particularly characteristic and recur across the materials she worked with – not only fabric, but also paper and cardboard. Ebbesen worked with the materials she could find around her while living at Sct. Hans Hospital – and in the same way, the workshop materials will consist of collected and recycled textiles from Roskilde and the surrounding area, among other places – a practice that is also central to the work of I Tråd Med Verden. The workshop will be held in collaboration with the Danish Design Museum, the Danish Design School, and the Danish Design Institute.

I Tråd med Verden
I Tråd Med Verden (In line with the world) is a community-based initiative founded to unite craftmanship and inclusivity around Copenhagen. Combinining textile design with social responsibility, discarded textiles are used, and embroidery, sewing, and plant dyeing becomes more than just techniques, they become carriers of stories. At I Tråd Med Verden, not only new products are created, but also opportunities and communities that show how handicrafts can be sustainable, inclusive, and meaningful.

Kaååråålines Verses
The exhibition Kaååråålines Vers (Kaååråålines Verses) is the Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art’s autumn exhibition, displayed in Kurhuset, located in the former Sankt Hans Hospital, where the artist Karoline Ebbesen lived from the mid-1880s until her death in 1936. During her long hospitalization, Ebbesen produced works in textiles, embroidery, collage, drawing, and text, and developed her own font and alphabet. The exhibition presents Ebbesen’s works alongside new large-scale installations by Danish and international artists, all with direct references to Ebbesen.