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, Ghosts in
Time, 2014
Rayon thread embroidery
Image description:
Machine embroidery created without
a backing cloth. The stitches form
shapes and texture on their own.
The overall impression is of a
delicate, lacy fabric, similar to
material that has degraded over
time. But a few patches are more
solid: the grey outline of a square in
the foreground, then behind it a rustcoloured
ring, like the stain left by a
mug on a table, plus a few drips
beside it.
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