Anneleen Bertels
Anneleen Bertels
Jewelrizing Textiles
Anneleen Bertels graduated from ArTEZ in the Netherlands with a degree in fashion design. Since graduating, she has focused on new applications at the intersection of fashion and jewellery or accessories. In 2022, Bertels founded her own lab, where she embellishes or repairs textiles with embroidery that incorporates jewellery and beads made from recycled materials. During her first visit to the TextielLab in 2024, she experimented with a crossover between traditional goldsmithing and passementerie.
How do jewellery and textiles blend to create a new art form? With passementerie expert Elian Beeker, Bertels experimented with gimped, twisted and braided cords in which sustainable natural yarns were combined with recycled and precious metal. For example, shiny copper thread was covered with an open structure of paper yarn, linen, hemp or hand-made banana yarn. Lightly moistening these fragile yarns made them easier to work with, making it possible to ‘refine’ textiles. The results were shown in the ‘Future Generation’ exhibition at MAD Brussels in 2024.
