P002 → The Map

The second in a series of reciprocal making projects between DAL and the fashion students at LCF.

This map was created from embroideries made by Dzaleka Arts Lab in 2023; each represents a personal story that they wished to share with the world in stitched form.

The pieces were brought back to the embroidery students at London College of Fashion and together with their course leader, Alice Richardson, turned into a map of Africa, in response to the wishes of the members of DAL. 

Within the map are couture techniques for using stitch, which returned later in 2023 as a teaching tool for the original makers. LCF students, in turn, created new ideas and techniques for pieces that honoured the conditions for making in Dzaleka camp, creating a cross-cultural bridge of making between Malawi and London.