THE FABRIC OF YOU

This promotional collection of posters, a banner, and social media graphics derives from an original concept for an identity workshop at the Museo del Tessuto–the textile museum in Prato, Italy.  In a city built around the textile industry and history, the museum is working hard to bring the younger generation of Prato into the museum to encourage a connection be discovered and built between young individuals and their own family’s history through the means of textiles.

My workshop concept, named “The Fabric of You”, allows visitors to choose textiles from the museum’s collection that they feel somehow represents their identity, and to place the textile behind a silhouette of their own head. This combination of representational and physical versions of one’s identity through fabric allows each individual to consider their family’s historical connection to the industry at the museum while also considering their own personal connection through their own silhouette.