Connected By Threads
Gill Crawshaw has created an illustrated essay that tells a story of disabled women and textiles. She makes connections between textile art created by contemporary disabled women artists and needlework produced by women incarcerated in institutions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Like those people who turned to genealogy during lockdown to research their family history, Gill aims to show connectivity between one generation and the next, highlighting kinship, shared practices and traditions, driven by her curiosity about disabled needleworkers and textile artists.
Gill Crawshaw has created an illustrated essay that tells a story of disabled women and textiles. She makes connections between textile art created by contemporary disabled women artists and needlework produced by women incarcerated in institutions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Like those people who turned to genealogy during lockdown to research their family history, Gill aims to show connectivity between one generation and the next, highlighting kinship, shared practices and traditions, driven by her curiosity about disabled needleworkers and textile artists.
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Lorina Bulwer, Untitled (detail), no date
Woollen yarn on re-used cotton fabric
Photo courtesy of Thackray Museum of Medicine
Image description:
Horizontal strips of different fabrics joined together and densely covered with stitched
writing in block capitals. This detail includes around fifty lines of text and there are
even words running sideways along the border.
The full transcript of the entire scroll is available at:
https://frayedtextilesontheedge.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/lorina-transcriptionthackray.pdf
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