25 Marzo 2026
Ilaria Pirro, Asia Volpi, Natalia Patarroyo, Marcello Frigerio, and Gustavo Lozano are among the winners of the “Go!2025” open call promoted by MuDeFri (Museum of Friuli Venezia Giulia), with the Trattopunto project. The prototype was presented at the Gorizia Design Week during the exhibition “Fiber art & Textile design”, held across multiple venues in Nova Gorica and Gorizia. The exhibition showcased the winning projects from a competition open to designers under 40, focused on functional objects connected to the world of textiles or the concept of weave and texture.
Trattopunto is an open-source, portable sewing machine designed to repair small holes in clothing -effortlessly and efficiently. Born from a simple but powerful idea, it is an essential tool for every fashion-conscious individual who wants to extend the life of their garments, save money, and reduce their environmental footprint.
The device tackles those bothersome small holes with ease, offering on-the-spot fixes without the need for expensive tailor visits or time-consuming hand sewing. It is built entirely from open-source components: a mechanical click pencil, hacked and combined with a series of 3D-printed parts – making it accessible to anyone who wants to download the files and build it themselves.
Trattopunto was developed during the “Hacking” module of the Concept Design Studio Green course (academic year 2022–23), supervised by Prof. Massimo Bianchini, with Laura Cipriani and Luca Grosso. The project is a prime example of design hacking: transforming an everyday object – a mechanical pencil with a click mechanism — into a micro sewing system with a precise and functional purpose.
Marcello Frigerio, Gustavo Lozano, Natalia Patarroyo, Ilaria Pirro, Asia Volpi
