Connecting Threads: A Participatory Weaving Workshop
Join us for a gentle, one-hour creative workshop where you can contribute to A Thread That Binds Us, a participatory artwork by Amber Roper
This is a space to to slow down, create, and connect - with others, with your thoughts, and with the evolving tapestry around you.
Inspired by Soft Threads, Soft Truths, the workshop invites you to add your own threads, words, or reflections to the communal weaving. Using finger weaving techniques and text-based contributions, you’ll engage with materials, colour, and texture while responding to the themes of connection, care, and resilience. Every gesture, word, or mark becomes part of the larger artwork, layering your story into a shared reflection on mental wellbeing across generations.
Amber Roper, a London-based textile and mixed media artist, works intuitively with colour, texture, and text. In this workshop, she invites you to join her in creating something that is both personal and shared - a quiet, supportive network built one thread at a time.
Come, weave, reflect, and add your voice to this evolving artwork, and discover the quiet power of shared making.
No experience required - just bring curiosity. Whether you come to create, converse, or simply observe, your presence will help the tapestry grow.
Commissioned by Bethlem Gallery, A Thread that Binds Us forms part of ‘Family Footsteps’, a collaborative research project exploring intergenerational mental health and parents’ beliefs and concerns about mental wellbeing within families, by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London.