What can a scrap of embroidery tell us about how to live? How can the past help us imagine unconstrained lives when not all traces remain? To explore these questions, Alice Hattrick turns to the embroidery designer May Morris and her circle, including her father William Morris; her mother Jane, an artist's model and embroiderer herself; and MF, May's gender non-conforming partner of twenty years. Through this queer encounter with the Arts and Crafts movement, Hattrick shifts attention from dominant narratives of design towards intimacy, labour and domestic life. Looking to May – alongside others who have found in textiles a means of resistance – Hattrick traces connections between these histories and their own queer identity, family ties and precarious working conditions within an ableist society. Expansive in thought, form and time, Fancy Work stitches together archival fragments, domestic spaces and ongoing sites of struggle, insisting on the political force of often overlooked acts of defiance.
- 316 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Praise
- Title Page
- Contents
- ¶ Unknown Needleworker
- ¶ Make a thing
- ¶ In the air
- ¶ Lesbian in essence
- ¶ Secret needlepointers
- ¶ Shadow work
- ¶ Homestead and forest
- ¶ Our bedroom
- ¶ Visitors
- ¶ Remember their name
- ¶ Unavoidable wear and tear
- ¶ Troublesome friends
- ¶ Tool of resistance
- ¶ True blue
- ¶ Red house, good women
- ¶ Crooked
- ¶ Punch the clock
- ¶ Piecing
- ¶ Scraps
- ¶ Resting place
- ¶ Kind soul
- ¶ Leftover
- ¶ Unknown Needleworker
- Sources
- Archives Consulted
- About the Author
- Copyright
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