Threads of Life should not be mistaken for a docile, meandering read about the joys of sewing. On the contrary, you can expect insightful, moving and thrilling stories, as Scottish-born textile artist and curator Clare Hunter singles out textiles with historical importance and pulls them into tight focus by pairing each one with a theme such as power, captivity, identity, loss and protest.
Hunter captures the sentiment perfectly: "Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning out place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving an indelible evidence of our presence in stitches held fast by our touch."
