Pattern Place is a project by Alessandra Varisco & Anouk Beckers that comes from a shared obsession for paper patterns. It is a playground, a (counter)-archive and library of materials related to pattern making. It is also a learning environment that is constantly re-activated by hosting workshops and other activities such as the talk on Thursday 11 December at Warehouse projectspace.

19:00 - 21:00
Talk starts at 19:30

During the talk, Alessandra & Anouk, will introduce Pattern Place and elaborate further on the workshop Image Observation and Garment Translation that they hosted on December 6 at Modestraat, Amsterdam-Noord.
In this workshop, participants were invited to experiment with the method of intuitive pattern making to reveal and translate a garment represented in a fashion image into a paper pattern.
Intuitive pattern making is a playful way of designing clothes whereby no specific level of knowledge and experience in pattern making is needed. With this approach, the project addresses topics such as representation of bodies, normative fit, measuring tapes and rulers as restrictive tools, authorship, creativity, skills and ways of making clothes.
The fashion images used in this workshop were collected from the Vogue September issue 2025.

Poster design by Lejla Vala Verheus.
Pattern Place is generously supported by The Creative Industries Fund NL.