Queen Victoria Gardens

Get weaving your own way and try your hand at macramé making in this community craft project

There’s a misconception that being a weaver always involves sitting tranquilly, spending years mastering a specific technique before you create anything. Chaco Kato from Slow Art Collective invites us re-think that idea. In this workshop, you can just drop in and use what you already know to start transforming your environment. The focus is on process over product—encouraging exploration, sustainability, appreciation and re-discovery in your everyday life. You’re encouraged to bring recycled yarn, rope, and threads, plus anything you want to weave onto (like milk crate, mesh plate, wire baskets). Or you’re more than welcome to just show up and have a go.

Thinking of joining? Letting us know your anticipated arrival time helps us plan capacity. Bookings for children and their parents or guardians are recommended.

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Collaborator: 

Chaco Kato
Chaco Kato is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, drawing, installation, and community-based projects. A founding member of Slow Art Collective, she explores sustainability, collaboration, and DIY survivalist aesthetics. Influenced by bricolage, ‘rhizomatic’ systems, and her Japanese heritage, Kato’s work embraces impermanence, flux, and the interplay of chaos and order. Through processes like weaving, knotting, and fermentation, she fosters communal dialogue, transforming everyday materials into dynamic spaces for collective reflection and interaction. Visit their website here.