Needling

Object made for old factory building Mosilana, Brno, spring semester, spools and knitting needles, 2016.

Needling is an object made by spools and needles. I have used material that follows the past of Mosilana former textile factory, which was located in this place. Spools from yarn come from the textile factory AB-tex, where is this material throw away as a waste. Their colour is chosen randomly, according to the availability of the largest amount of the same colours. Their colour is determined by the softness of the yarn. The connection material is knitting needles, which violently intersect each spool. The shape is based on the possibility that the material permits. Therefore the work in a way responds to the decline of the textile industry in Brno and the shape follows this idea. The biggest development of the textile factories in Brno took place during the interwar period, there were about 40 woollen factories. After the Second World War Ministry of Industry made decree about joining of private companies. Vlněna and Mosilana originated by nationalizing and joining of some former originally Jewish and German private factories. Most of the textile industry in Brno after 1989 gradually disappeared. NEW Mosilana owner becomes the Italian group Marzotto Group. Although this work does not solve the problem of dilapidated buildings of the former Moravian Manchester, it evokes the contrast between the old gray past and colourful present.