UPCYCLING WORKSHOP #4 WITH MELANIE PARZENCZEWSKI

Melanie Parzenczewski is a fashion designer, lacemaker, and founder of Inlé Studio. She graduated in 2024 from HTW Berlin with her bachelor collection LÆ[GA]CY, which was showcased during Fashion Week in July 2025 at Berliner Salon and Neofashion. In her designs, she focuses on traditional craftsmanship techniques, which she reinterprets in a modern way. Her goal is to help keep these techniques alive and to inspire others to explore them as well.

She works primarily with natural materials and aims for zero waste by creating pattern pieces directly in shape through the bobbin lace technique. She also uses leftover yarns and fabrics for smaller projects and textile experimentation.

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Structure of the workshop:

- short introduction of myself, the product and the technique (10 min)
- training of basic lacing elements with bobbins and yarn (30 min)
- lacing the fabric for the pencil case using one repeating element of the bobbin lace technique (half stitch) with laundry clips instead of bobbins (180 min)
- sewing in the zipper and elastic (50 min)
- closing the upper and lower seam by hand (30 min)

The end product of the workshop will be a pencil case with an elastic that can be put around a notebook. We will use fabric strips to create the fabric using a basic element of the bobbin lace technique. 

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