Duduá’s twist, says Ali, is that they aim to make crafts “contemporary and creative.” Ali owes everything she knows about crocheting and knitting to her grandmother, but grew frustrated with the limited field of curtains, doilies and frilly bed-skirts. Duduá aims to bring craft to a younger generation, teaching students basic skills and how to use them to make anything that strikes their fancy. The most popular class is “crochet freestyle,” in which students are encouraged to think outside the box when applying their newly-learnt crocheting skills to make anything from Japanese-inspired dolls to woolly jewelry.
Workshops come in the form of either intensive three to four-hour courses or weekly, two-hour sessions of up to three weeks. Their course options are a feast to the eyes of any self-respecting craft lover. Try your hand at clock making led by artist Misako Mimoko. Or have a bash at transforming your old pairs of sports socks into dolls at the Taller de Mascotas. There are even workshops for kids, where mountains of glue, glitter and pipe cleaners are transformed into pirate's ships, crazy bugs and blinging spaceships.
Dudu-a's pastel-tinged, Japanese-inspired creativity has brought something unique to Barcelona. In this age of the conscious consumer, the art of craft is on the up—come and join the revolution.
Duduá
Passatge de la Pau, 13 (Barri Gòtic)
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