Simmering Impressions

SiiM – Simmering Impressions is a mindful and sustainable making practice, dedicated to reconnecting body, mind, and environment through the art of textiles.

Born from the awareness of how deeply textiles shape our lives and how urgently we need to reimagine our connection with them, SiiM is an invitation to slow down, to touch, to listen, and to rediscover the bond between ourselves and the material world through the simple gestures of weaving, stitching, and creating. This process encourages new habits of care, creativity, and sustainability, fostering a more conscious and lasting relationship with what we make and use.

At the heart of SiiM is a return to ancient knowledge. The gestures and skills that have been passed through generations and carried in the hands of makers. Working with natural materials such as wool, every thread, weave, and stitch becomes a way to honour tradition while giving it new meaning in the present.

SiiM gathers people into shared moments where creativity and conversation unfold side by side. Each workshop offers a gentle encounter with craft, allowing participants to learn, to make, and to feel part of a lineage of textile knowledge that continues to shape how we live with and care for the world around us.

Hand dyed embroidery floss by Cristina Nicotra

The founder of SiiM is Cristina Nicotra, a multi-passionate textile artist born in Milano and based in Dublin for years.

SiiM was born from the desire to answer to the climate crisis using the skills from her family's tailoring tradition and the yoga philosophy that led her life.

Mix media embroidery, hand dyed fabric and lace by Cristina Nicotra

The meaning of SiiM name

Our conscious actions have impact on our mind, each leaving an impression.

This memories deposited in the unconscious will be constantly recalled leaving a deeper and stronger impression, which is becoming a habit.

This is what is called Samskara, that it is believed to be the base of Karma.

These habits are actions influencing the world around us or thoughts influencing our mind.

We want to understand our deeper impressions, or habits, and choose consciously if they are negative and get rid or change them.

Yoga has some indications on how to positively deal with our impressions, mostly matching with what currently we call sustainable living.

​In general we are all dealing with our impressions to have a better and fuller life.

​We are all simmering our impressions.

Hand woven Irish belt crios on a inkle loom by Cristina Nicotra

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