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PRE-ORDER: We Will Find Them: Arpilleras and the Political Art of Chil – Common Threads Press
PRE-ORDER: We Will Find Them: Arpilleras and the Political Art of Chil – Common Threads Press
PRE-ORDER FOR PUBLICATION ON 19 MARCH 2026 In the shadow of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, resistance in Chile took many forms — including quiet stitches by hand. We Will Find Them: Arpilleras and the Political Art of Chile Under Pinochet reveals the remarkable story of the arpilleristas: groups of women who transfor
Open Call: Essays on Craft and Disability
Open Call: Essays on Craft and Disability
Ache x Common Threads Collaborative Publication (Title TBC) Submission deadline: 1 April 2026 Ache Magazine and Common Threads Press are excited to invite you to contribute a submission for our new collaborative publication (title TBC) exploring the intersection of craft practices and disability to be published in Spri
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All Ah We is One: Caribbean Carnival Costume
All Ah We is One: Caribbean Carnival Costume
Caribbean Carnivals have been taking place around the UK since 1959. These joyous celebrations of culture and community began as acts of resistance in the face of enslavement — a defiant stand from communities who refused to lose who they were and where they came from. Drawing from this rich and radical history, Aislin
Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles
Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles
An invigorating survey of Black women textile artists, celebrating their vital contributions to cultural and social histories through fibre-related mediums. Historically ignored or overlooked in surveys of art history, Black women artists that work in fibre and textiles have often been further neglected – their artwor
Softness: A Meditation on Knitting
Softness: A Meditation on Knitting
Unravelling the semantics of the ugly jumper, the ratty cardigan and the squishy mittens. Softness is a poetic reflection on hand-knitting and the neglected objects that give us nourishment. A straggly jumper, shrunken in a hot wash. A frayed sleeve, mended with different wool. A garish sweater, coffee-stained but deci
Stitching the Intifada: Embroidery and Resistance in Palestine
Stitching the Intifada: Embroidery and Resistance in Palestine
Tatreez — elaborate hand-embroidery — is an ancient Palestinian craft characterised by remarkable beauty and complexity. Beginning with an introduction to the regional diversity of historic Palestinian dress, Rachel Dedman traces the politicisation of embroidery after the Nakba of 1948. From its evolution into a symbol of the nation, to its powerful presence during the First Intifada, and reimagination by contemporary artists, tatreez in Palestine embodies many forms of personal and public resistance.
Mauka to Makai: Hawaiian Quilts and the Ecology of the Islands 🌿
Mauka to Makai: Hawaiian Quilts and the Ecology of the Islands 🌿
Exploring the intimate relationship between Hawaiian quilts, post-colonialism and ecological disaster, research curator Marenka Thompson-Odlum traverses Hawai‘i through the Poakalani quilting group and fifteen extraordinary quilts, newly commissioned by Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. The ahupua‘a is an anci
Many Hands Make A Quilt Second Edition by Public Library Quilts 🧵
Many Hands Make A Quilt Second Edition by Public Library Quilts 🧵
A vital and tender record of the quilts that have shaped history — and the hands that stitched them. Throughout history, marginalised communities have turned to the collective intimacies of quilting in moments of need. From the works of Faith Ringgold to social initiatives such as the Navajo Quilting Project, Many Han
Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration
Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration
For centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needle moving in and out of fabric. Stitching Freedom explores the embroidery made in prisons and mental health hospitals — those who have embroidered to distract, to reflect or to calm. From Mary, Queen of Scots to Lorina Bulwer, emb
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