Strange Material (eBook)

Chapter 1: Making Meaning
1.The Safe Space of Textiles
2.Stitching Overlooked Stories
3.Freddie Robins on Craft Kills
4.Binding Cloths: An Interview with Tamar Stone
5.Designing Your Own Narrative Textiles
6.Transcription Through Cloth: An Interview with Eleanor Hannan
7.Creativity Exercise: The Button Jar
8.You Don’t Have to Stitch It
9.Little Tokens: An Interview with Maria Damon

Chapter 2: The Stories that We Wear
1.Dressing to Defy the Usual Story
2.Clothing in the Asylum
3.Altering What They Wore
4.Clothing as Cultural Vocabulary: Rosalind Wyatt
5.Stories to Rattle Your Bones: An Interview with Teresa Burrows
6.Confessional Couture: An Interview with Noel Paloma-Lovinski
7.Project: Close to the Heart by brifrischu

Chapter 3: Poetic Textiles
1.Surviving Through Stitch
2.The Poetry Blanket
3.The Troublesome Poetry Mittens
4.Sleeping with Poetry: An Interview with Kerry Larkin of Comma Workshop
5.Public Interventions with Poetry Bombing: An Interview with Agustina Woodgate
6.Project: Wear Your Words by Leanne Prain featuring ‘Day’ a poem by Laura Farina

Chapter 4: Textiles of Protest, Politics, and Power
1.Rugs of Resistance
2.Safe Passage: The Legend of the Underground Railway Quilts
3.Telling Stories under Dictatorship: The Chilean Arpillera
4.Imbleachments and Public Satire: An Interview with Diane Bush
5.Sweaters of Revolution: The Work of Ellen Lesperance
6.Prompt: Make Your Voice Heard
7.Telling Essential Stories through S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D., An interview with Climbing Poetree
8.Project: Craftivist Resistance Mask by Sarah Corbett

Chapter 5: The Fabric of Remembrance
1.Bereavement Quilts
2.An Overlooked History
3.Stitched Travel Diaries
4.Exploring Family Genealogy Through Stitching
5.Crocheting Joy: An Interview with Sayraphim Lothian
6.Prompt: Try Your Hand at Memoir
7.Story Quilts: An Interview with Marion Coleman
8.Project: I Love My City Tote bag by Lindsay Zier-Vogel

Chapter 6: Illustrative Storytelling
1.Embroidered Illustration
2.Button Blankets
3.Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
4.Prompt: Approach a Story through Imagery
5.Truth is Stranger than Fiction: An Interview with Freddie Robins
6.The Changing Story of the Tartan
7.Internal and External Geographies: An Interview with Bettina Matzkuhn

Chapter 7: Fictional Characters
1.Knit the City: Telling Stories with Soft Sculpture
2.Fiber & Fairytales: An Interview with Stephanie Dosen of Tiny Owl Knits
3.Superhero Stories: An Interview with Mark Newport
4.Prompt: Bring Fictional Characters into your Textiles
5.Knitting Nightmares: An Interview with Tracey Widdess
6.Project: The Amelia Mobile by Susan Kendal

Chapter 8: Humorous Textiles
1.Embroidering a Year of Unemployment: An Interview with Melissa A. Calderon
2.WooWork: An Interview with Howie Woo
3.Tips for Making Your Work Funny
4.Stitched Rejection: An Interview with Gina Dawson
5.Project: #DadKnowsBest by Iviva Olenick

Chapter 9: Storytelling with Textiles and New Technology
1.Open Source Embroidery
2.Phillip Stearn’s Beautiful Faults
3.The Social Knitwork
4.@Embroidered Poems
5.Mixing Media: An Interview with Kristy Whitlock
6.Prompt: Think Outside the Sewing Box
7.Fuzzy Logic: An Interview with Carlyn Yandle
8.Project: “Hello World” Blinky Light Lilypad Arduino Patch by Emily Smith

Chapter 10: Community Storytelling Through Textiles
1.Names Project Aids Memorial Quilt
2.Circles of Stitching
3.Start a Stitching Circle
4.Putting A Community In Stitches
5.Creating An Urban Tapestry
6.Stitching for Our Oceans
7.Dyeing for Your Community
8.Community Building, One Bridge at a Time
9.Amanda Browder’s Future Phenomena
10.Harnessing the Power of Textile Community: An Interview with Lee Bowser
11.Designing A Community Textile Project
12.Community Confessions: An Interview with Jessica Vellenga
13.Spinning Stories: Participatory Art with Robyn Love