In this timely guest post, Katharina Krause shares her reflections on the social meanings of the hand-sewn protective mask during the global 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. Read more here...
Making Masks – Reflections on sewing in times of COVID-19
Textile efforts for peace
Enjoy Christine Andrä's pick of inspiring political textiles! Inspiring, soothing, amazing.
HUMAN THREADS
Listen to and read HUMAN THREADS, a poem by award-winning Northern Irish playwright, poet and film-maker Damian Gorman about the power of the needle in defying power.
The Needle as the Pen. Part 10: Our Inheritance
pen, thread and cloth combined transform into a language that surpasses words." Read the powerful last part of the blog series by Andrea Liu here...
The Needle as the Pen. Part 9: Visible Mending: Embroidering Love
In this guest post, Andrea Liu presents the second part of her reflections on embroidery as a form of mending during and after war and political violence. Read more...
The Needle as the Pen. Part 8: Visible Mending: Unpicking Hate
In this guest post, Andrea Liu continues her exploration of the needle as the pen. This time, she focuses on the notion of mending. Read more...
Video: Trabajo biográfico y método de narrativa textil
En este video, Beatriz Arias presenta los resultados parciales de la investigación "(Des)tejiendo miradas sobre los sujetos en proceso de reconciliación en Colombia", cuyo foco es la salud mental colectiva, el reconocimiento y el reencuentro entre excombatientes de las FARC y las comunidades rurales de acogida en algunas zonas de Antioquia.
The Needle as the Pen. Part 7: The Unravelling: Cutting Cloths
In this guest post, Andrea Liu explores militarised violence and civilian resistance in the contexts of the dictatorships in Argentina and Chile in the 1970s and 80s. Another powerful read. See more here...
The Needle as the Pen. Part 6: The Unravelling: Starving Mouths
In the sixth part of the post series "The Needle as the Pen", our guest author Andrea Liu reflects on arpilleras from Peru and Chile that document economic crisis in Latin America in the 1980s. Read more...
The Needle as the Pen. Part 5: The Unravelling: Breaking Bodies
In part 5 of her guest post "The Needle as the Pen", Andrea Liu reflects on how textiles were used in Chile and Argentina to denounce political violations by dictatorial regimes.
