Community Textile Practice - Selected Work

Javiera Sandoval Limari

Studio

My studio is located in a Secondary school in North London, supported by Cubitt Artists.

With the school and gallery I collaborate as freelancer doing Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning in different projects. During 2025 I curated the project “Liberating the Curriculum”, while the education curator was in mat-leave. Now I am part of the studio artist community.

My studio is based within a North London school building. This space forms the foundation for the proposed community sewing sessions, enabling accessible, shared making within a familiar environment.

Machine Work & Textile Experiments

Include:

  • Close-up of machine drawing

  • 1–2 garment examples (even simple ones)

  • Detail shots of stitching

  • Threads / texture

My textile practice explores machine drawing, repair, adaptation and embodied mark-making. I work across sewing and crochet as relational and material forms of inquiry.

Textile and Crochet Research

During my doctoral research, I used creative sewing and crochet as embodied methods of analysing ethnographic material. This research informs my approach to textiles as relational practice and collective authorship.

Community Work - Manos Creando series of workshops and exhibition

Caption:

Previous participatory workshops with AMPLA and community partners.