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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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Hayley Mills-Styles, Marking Time, 2014

Rayon thread embroidery on vintage cotton tray cloth

Image description:

A tray cloth with a brown irregular ring, as if left behind by a hot

drink spilt from a mug. The ring is machine embroidered, dense

stitching becoming single lines of stitch here and there at the

edges.

Hayley Mills-Styles, Recording Time, 2014

Rayon thread embroidery

Image description:

Machine embroidery, so dense as to make solid fabric. There are

half a dozen rectangles, a few inches long, arranged in neat rows.

Grey, black and rust-coloured thread give a dusty appearance. The

middle rectangle is in clear focus and has a pattern of gentle

ridges, like upholstery.

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