Workshop leaders
Meet the creatives who will be guiding the TexTiles workshops. Through their diverse practices in arts, they will support the participants in the process and share their expertise.
Anouk van de Sande
Anouk van de Sande is a multidisciplinair designer that researches how material, experiment and sustainability can come together in new forms of design. From a sustainable design practice she works with local materials and waste streams. In doing so she uses techniques such as textile printing, weaving, knotting and sewing, and combines different making processes to translate two dimensional idea’s into tangible objects. With her DIY-bag brand ‘Tasket’ she develops products and workshops in which making, experimenting and craft and education, with attention for collaboration, material awareness and local production.
Website: www.tasket.nl
Instagram: @tasket_bags
Becky Doonen
Becky Doonan is a freelance textile conservator and seamstress, with a background in textile crafts and dressmaking. Originally from the UK, Becky has lived in the Netherlands since 2018. Her work covers a broad spectrum, from creating made-to-measure garments and conserving antique textiles, to teaching textile craft workshops and giving sewing lessons. She has a longstanding fascination with traditional textile craft techniques, which she explores through activities such as embroidery, weaving, and other handicrafts.
Website: beckydoonanconservation.com
Instagram: @textiletextiel
Chiron Floris
Chiron Floris (Maastricht, 1994) holds a BA in Fashion and Textile from HKU and an MA in Fashion from KASK. In her artistic practice, she works with textile crafts with a background in fashion. She explores the relationship between humans and textiles, and the connections that emerge during the making process. Guided by the belief that craft and fashion share the same core values, she brings these disciplines together in her work. Her work includes embroidery, filet lace and illustrations inspired by diary fragments. Floris’ practice engages with themes such as ancestral knowledge, migration and belonging, exploring how memories are embedded in the body and how textiles can reconnect us to place, heritage and personal narratives.
Instagram: @chironfloris
Jolieke Kessels
Jolieke Kessels is a freelance designer, pattern maker and teacher. In 2019 she graduated from the art academy in Maastricht. She has a passion for everything that has to do with threads. From sewing with the sewing machine to embroidery by hand, with a specialization in crochet and knitting. Alongside technical questions, you can also turn to her for advice on colour and texture, as these are central to her own practice.
Instagram: @joliekekessels
Lois van Rijt
Lois van Rijt (23) is a freshly graduated maker from Limburg. She studied Fine Arts and Design in Education at the art academy in Maastricht, where next to her passion for education, her fascination for textile developed. Inside her practice she brings together various disciplines, Craftsmanship is at the heart of this. She works small and prefers hand work. She has mastered various manual technique, like embroidery, quilting, patchwork, appliqué and beedembroidery. In addition she knits, with hand as well as the knitting machine. Within her practice she researches how textile can exist as autonomous artwork, independent of a practical function. Instead of using textile only for clothing or functional objects, she makes works that stand on itself and tell their own story.
Instagram: @ikmaakweleens.wat
Floris van Lammeren
Het Stort (Floris van Lammeren) is a Maastricht-based fashion practice focused on on-demand, single-handedly made-to-measure garments. The work centers on unisex and menswear-inspired workwear, emphasizing durability, functionality, and natural textiles. Through a hands-on and craft-based process, the practice explores contemporary workwear while valuing material honesty and longevity. The work combines research, communication, sewing, pattern modification, screen printing, and machine embroidery.
Instagram: @hetstort
Annemiek Peeters
Annemiek Peeters (50) combines her expertise in advertisement- and presentationtechniques with her passion for fashion design. In her work, she prefers working with leather and textile manipulations, such as smocking and free-motion machine embroidery. Over the years, she had become an experienced partner of FASHIONCLASH, having contributed to various projects.
Instagram: @annemiekjohannamariakizito
Laurie Bessems
Laurie Bessems is a fashion designer with a strong focus on knitwear and handcrafted textiles. She graduated with first class honours in BA Fashion Knitwear and Knitted Textile at Nottingham Trent University, where her werk got presented during London Graduate Fashion Week 2016. After a period as freelance designer she launched her own brand in 2018, in which craftsmanship, sustainability and luxury come together.
With a love for handwork and innovative yarns such as alpaca silk, yak and recycled materials, Laurie creates unique accessoires through her brands Laurie Bessems and LB Accessories. Her designproces always starts with the material and translates this into elegant knitted and crocheted items such as hairbands, scarves and shawls. In 2024, a collaboration with Karel Smeekes led to the founding of Blended7, a brand that combines bespoke and handmade accessories in a stylish, high-quality collection for both men and women.
Instagram: @lauriebessems
Loes van Nijnatten
Loes van Nijnatten is a fashion designer and creative consultant, with a background in luxury womenswear and experience with, among others, Marc Jacobs and Saint Laurent. Her werk moves between craftsmanship and experiment. From different techniques like embroidery and textile print she developes intuitive and mostly improvised fabric manipulations, in which material gets deformed, layered and redefined. She uses handwork not only as a technique, but as a way to create new shapes, textures and stories.
Instagram: @loesvannijnatten
Wievien Alberts
Wievien is a designer who works instinctively, this intuitive way of working ensures that she creates her own signature style. Wievien’s sensitivity to style, colour and her daring nature combined form a complete, aesthetic image. As a result, her work stretches past boundaries and breaks the normal standard, creating room for innovation.
Wievien’s playful approach creates spontaneous designs, which bring out changes in identity.
She is often her own model, creating new identities of herself and her designs,
which gives her work an exciting and unpredictable edge. Throughout her career, Wievien has explored the transformative power of
masks, using them as a medium to depict and process her own suppressed emotions.
Her designs aim to inspire others to embark on their own inner journeys, reflecting on the figurative masks they wear in their lives.
Instagram: @studio_wievien