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Fancy Work: Unpicking Past Lives

Fancy Work: Unpicking Past Lives

Hattrick, Alice

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Biographies GeneralLetters & EssaysWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $19.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 27, 2026

ISBN10: 180427237X
ISBN13: 9781804272374
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English

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.

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