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Common Goods by Sara Liz Marty & Nadja Zürcher

Common Goods by Sara Liz Marty & Nadja Zürcher

Common Goods

Name(s)

Sara Liz Marty
Nadja Zürcher

Website(s)

common-goods.ch

Instagram

@commongoods

Employment

• Sara Liz Marty: 60% Corporate Responsibility Manager, Zug/Zurich; 40% Freelance textile designer and artist, Zug/Zurich • Nadja Zürcher: 60% Kindergarten teacher, Zug; 40% Freelance fashion specialist, Zug

Education

• Sara Liz Marty: Master, Fashion Futures, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, London (UK), 2020; Bachelor, Textile Design for Fashion & Interiors, Bath Spa University, Bath (UK), 2014 • Nadja Zürcher: HF Fashion Design & Technology, Schweizerische Textilfachschule, Switzerland, 2021; Bachelor, Teacher for Textiles and Visual Arts, Seminar Heiligkreuz, Switzerland, 2006

Title

Common Goods

Year of creation

2022–2024

Place of creation

Claro/Zug

Context of creation

Personal

Collaborators

Matteo Gehringer, Claro

Item(s) shown

8 individually crafted jackets

Dimensions

30 × 500 × 600 mm
30 × 500 × 470 mm
30 × 540 × 470 mm
30 × 540 × 600 mm
30 × 540 × 600 mm
30 × 580 × 650 mm
30 × 580 × 650 mm
30 × 620 × 650 mm

Formats/Duration
Material(s)

Vintage handwoven linen, most of them made in Switzerland  

Material supplier(s)

Vintage/second hand material sourced from various markets, charity shops and individuals

Common Goods is a sharing project that challenges conventional clothing consumption practices, advocating for innovative ownership models—offering jackets for rent rather than for sale.

At the heart of Common Goods lies the revival of Ticino blueprint, an old textile printing technique from Switzerland’s Italian-speaking region. This woodblock-printing and indigo-dyeing craft takes up to ten months to complete. Drawing inspiration from centuries-old designs, new textile patterns were developed, culminating in a limited series of eight jackets, bringing this traditional craft into a contemporary realm.

As wandering objects, the jackets are worn for two months before being sent directly to the next wearer. Each participant embroiders their name into the jacket label and records their experiences in a logbook, leaving a personal trace and story. Named after its core principle, Common Goods envisions a future that goes beyond traditional ownership and emphasises communal sharing.

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