Black Women, Fibre and Textiles
Second Edition
Year: 2025
Publisher: Common Threads Press
Author: Sharbreon Plummer
Illustrator: Saffa Khan
co-designer: Scarlett Ryan
Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 200x140mm
Extent: 72pp
ISBN: 9781068625053
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.