Reconstrucción de una historia relacional familia-oficio mediante experimentaciones con el tejido de punto

Abstract

Like a vital yarn that has been cut, the loss of knowledge associated with the textile practice revealed a family fragmentation. In this context, it is proposed to produce, through experimentation with knitting, a visual proposal for the reconstruction of a relational history of the Family-Occupation. For this purpose, autoethnography, sustained by family stories and events, was the starting point that made it possible, through textiles, to safeguard ancestral knowledge related to spinning, dyeing, and weaving wool; to strengthen emotional ties in the family environment; and to vindicate textiles as a vital subject in social and cultural dynamics. Thus, the artwork ¿Había algo más, Rosa Elvira?, composed of a textile piece and an audiovisual record, demonstrates that the textile is constructed in a complex process (cadena operatoria) that begins with mutual nurturing and that the dialogue between the mind, the heart and the hands, where not only threads are interwoven, but also emotions and intentions, constitutes the textile activity as an act of resistance.