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Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre & Threads
- Writer
- Dr. Sharbreon Plummer
- Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Common Threads Press
- Format
- Anthologies
- ISBN
- 978-1-06862-505-3
- Size
- 15 × 21 cm
- Length
- 72 pp
- Genre
- Textile, Black Art & Artists
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 artworks reduced to hobby or handiwork without proper consideration to their deeper significance. From rug-making and hand-felting to computational textiles, the work of seven contemporary artists offers a remedy. Explored through a series of interviews, Diasporic Threads collates their diverse practice in a potent reminder that anti-Blackness and misogynoir are global issues, contested and resisted at the intersections of race, art, and cultural memory.
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