For her graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Van den Elshout made woven fabrics and cords in the TextielLab. As a passementerie intern, she learned to plait, gimp and twist cords.
Photographer and designer Patty van den Elshout is fascinated by the interplay between light and shadow: two opposites that depend on each other to exist. They move together and are constantly shifting, in an eternal dance between light and dark. For her graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Van den Elshout made woven fabrics and cords in the TextielLab. As a passementerie intern, she learned to plait, gimp and twist cords. Her experiments resulted in refined shapes, structures and patterns, which she then illuminated in different ways. In ‘Shadow Dance’, abstract shadows derived from architectural forms come to life as the light changes, revealing the poetry of passementerie. The project was presented at Dutch Design Week 2023 and won the Friends of the TextielMuseum Foundation’s Young Talent Award.
