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Connecting Threads: Tactile Social History

by Lynn Setterington
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781739316051
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Quickthorn
  • Publisher Imprint: Quickthorn
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 112
  • Original Price: USD 35.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 260 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Fiber Arts & Textiles, Needlework / General, and Reference

Connecting Threads brings together twelve textile projects completed between 1981 and 2024. Each one acts as a social history document, providing tactile evidence of often untold stories of people on the margins, unexamined histories and overlooked places, all through stitch. The resulting work is both personal and political. It ranges from tiny colorful hand embroidered fragments recording everyday life in South London and Yorkshire, to monumental, site-specific banners made with construction workers in the north of England. As a collection it describes the author's life in stitch and details how an artist-embroiderer works and thinks creatively, how projects are managed and take shape and some of the hurdles encountered in socially engaged practice.

The projects described in this book encompass themes of identity and belonging, health and wellbeing, sustainability, community cohesion and social inequality, offering sensory testaments of life today. Unusually, in a career that has garnered international recognition, Setterington remains modest, committed to the next collaboration, the sharing of textile languages, the rituals of ordinary life.

Lynn Setterington is a major British textile artist known for her hand-stitched quilts and embroideries. Her research is situated at the intersection of craft and community, social engagement, design and activism and she creates tactile social history documents with groups and communities to interrogate social injustices and celebrate the overlooked and everyday. These sensory cloths provide soft, alternative flexible forms of commemoration, countering the fixed, hard memorials, ubiquitous in many parks, city centers and stadiums. Mary Schoeser is an internationally respected textile and wallpaper historian who has published and curated widely. She has collaborated with many museums over her 40 year career, including the Fashion Textile Museum, London; the V&A - where she is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow - and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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