Secret Stash: Textiles, Hoarding, Collecting, Accumulation and Craft

I’m excited to have an essay in this wonderful new volume edited by Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch. “Secret Stash: Textiles, Hoarding, Collecting, Accumulation and Craft.” In The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design. Anthea Black and

Quilts for the 21st Century: Activism in the Expanded Field of Quilting

“Quilts for the Twenty-First Century: Activism in the Expanded Field of Quilting” In Handbook of Textiles, eds. Janis Jefferies, Hazel Clark and Diana Wood Conroy. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2014, pp. 197-210. In this chapter, I begin by exploring the rich

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Rebellious Doilies and Subversive Stitches: Writing a ‘Craftivist’ History Focusing on knitting, this essay briefly examines what might be gained and what is lost through the erasure of a historical trajectory of radical practice. To get at this question I