Abstract

Works of art made from or involving textiles or cloth (or works that are sewn or woven) often depict events and histories of significance. These may be occurrences with social and political import to communities, groups or countries, but they may also be incidents or experiences only of consequence to those who made the works concerned. While many works in cloth represent events directly, others allude to public or personal histories through their inclusion of motifs with symbolic or metaphoric associations. And while they may involve activism or offer socio-political commentary, often with feminist underpinnings, the act of narrating histories and representing events via cloth is also on many occasions a vehicle for self-reflection or the exploration of identities.

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  • Works of art made from or involving textiles or cloth often depict events and histories of significance

  • The focus of the conference was on the multiple and varied ways in which textiles or fabric have served as a way of representing events and histories with public or personal significance

  • Six of the articles included here have been developed from papers presented at that conference, while a further two have been authored for this special issue. They emphasise the varied ways in which textiles and cloth have been used for narrative purposes

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Introduction

Works of art made from or involving textiles or cloth (or works that are sewn or woven) often depict events and histories of significance. While many works in cloth represent events directly, others allude to public or personal histories through their inclusion of motifs with symbolic or metaphoric associations.

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