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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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Raisa Kabir, Build me a loom off of your back

and your stomach..., 2018

Performance at The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

Photo: Angela Dennis

Image description:

A photograph of the artist sitting on a small rug on the

wooden floor of an art gallery, textiles and costume

behind glass on the back wall. She is brown-skinned

and wears a black sleeveless dress. Her feet are bare,

painted red, with ghungroos - dancing bells - round her

ankles. She bends over, focused on her feet. Behind her

is a large loom, about five feet high and deep, warp

threads and rope hanging from it.

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