Lubaina Himid 'Lost Threads' Interview (2021)

Cascading through the structure of Gawthorpe Hall’s Great Barn, 400 metres of Dutch Wax fabric reflect the movement of oceans and rivers that have been used to transport cotton across the planet and over centuries. Waterways historically carried raw cotton, spun yarn, and woven textiles from continent to continent, as well as enslaved people from Africa to pick raw cotton in the southern states of America or workers who migrated from South Asia to operate looms here in East Lancashire.
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[@nancydoyle9801]

beautiful! so wonderfully articulate is Lubaina Himid

[@inezharrell4339]

Thanks for sharing ❤️
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[@deborahmunns5884]

Lubiana is so correct about how the history of the fabric is there. We can make a bit of dialogue, Gawthorpe Hall, the lady of the house used to teach ladies to sew, to make money. It's a beautiful house with double solar window. (It's next to Burnley football ground I believe, some thing for the guys, girls do the textile collection). Manchester, Burnley, Styall Mill. Rawstanstall all places if cotton making.