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Sarah Corbett

Re-Wild Your Wardrobe for Fashion Revolution Week
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Over the last few years I’ve become increasingly aware of the “high cost of cheap fashion” and whilst developing our … Read More

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Instagram post 2172129149062215183_1662264957 I got to do some slow stitching at @alicekettle ‘s Stitch a Tree workshop at her #ThreadBearingWitness exhibition @britishtextilebiennial recently. From Alice’s website, “This project aims to connect communities and individuals across the UK to show support for displaced people around the world. Participants are invited to stitch a tree which will later be arranged into a large embroidery called Forest by artist Alice Kettle.” Great to contribute to this in situ but I was also given a kit to work on at home as my freezing fingers could only tolerate a minimal offering! Lovely to meet @kellyquinzel too and share some rather candid chat with the others stitching together. Sewing in a group is quite therapeutic. Have you ever experienced this?🌳
Instagram post 2172100605053356543_1662264957 Isn’t this pretty? The beautiful colours, detail and textures. It’s actually depicting refugees in the sea. Are they swimming to safety or drowning before being rescued?

This is a close up of @alicekettle #ThreadBearingWitness work exhibited @britishtextilebiennial recently. Powerful, inspirational, meaningful textiles! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Instagram post 2172093414455976510_1662264957 I hope @alicekettle ‘s #ThreadBearingWitness installation moves to another venue soon so you all can see it up close. The detail is astounding and the impact of three huge canvasses displayed in the dramatic old barn at Gawthorpe Hall was incredible. Head over to Alice’s account for background info. This image shows the back of the ‘land’ canvas and front of ‘sea’, each depicting how refugees risk their lives finding safety from uninhabitable homelands.
Instagram post 2172076189867080317_1662264957 My second favourite banner at the ‘Banner Culture’ exhibition at Brierfield Mill in Nelson recently. I found out afterwards from the handout given @britishtextilebiennial that rather than this being an accusatory banner made to name and shame, it was in fact created by Jane Hellings herself. She had seen this written on a toilet door when she was a teenager, at a time when she had a number of boyfriends who left her because she wouldn’t have sex with them. I hope I’m recounting that correctly and hoping you get the gist! It’s a great statement about the labels that get thrown at women whether they have have the audacity to enjoy sex or if they chose not to. Either way, our culture has ingrained labels just ready to damn us if we do or don’t!
Instagram post 2172071703480140876_1662264957 I’m reflecting on all the inspiring work I saw during the recent @britishtextilebiennial This was the ‘Banner Culture’ exhibition held in the stunning Brierfield Mill in Nelson. Check out the story highlights for more photos. My personal favourite was a Remain banner simply stating that ‘pulling out doesn’t work’. Too true. 😁
Instagram post 2172066690951351464_1662264957 I love my tits! I don’t think there’s anything particularly special about them, I’ve just always loved them. Even though there are so few clothes that suit women with an ample bosom and they sometimes make me feel too wide for my height haha! I should have been a naturist (although there’s still time... 🤔) as I’ve never really felt clothes suited me. Although I’ve been inspired by the example set by my friend Ginny @myrtle_sweet who teaches sewing, to start creating a naturally dyed wardrobe that I feel good wearing next year. 🔔of💗

Breasts are so connected to a woman’s emotional heart centre and are referred to as ‘bells of love’ in Taoist traditions (hence the emojis! 😁) There’s nothing that compares to the deep loving connection felt when breast feeding (or the excruciating agony of having a hungry baby latch on to cracked nipples!) 🔔of💗

As I age and my boobs deflate and droop little by little, I wonder what they’ll look like when I’m a pensioner? If I live a long life, I’ve decided I’ll wear a T shirt like this one exhibited in the ‘Cult - Culture -Subversion’ exhibition which was part of the recent @textilebiennial Maybe I’ll take a photo of them now and freeze them in time. I’ve been trying for months now to get them recorded on a @potyertitsawayluv pot but commissions sell out in seconds! Kudos to everyone celebrating our glorious fun bags! 🔔of💗
Instagram post 2171783599649433730_1662264957 The textile artist @alicekettle works on the back of her fabric! I was lucky enough to get a 1-1 explanation of her work @britishtextilebiennial •
Thread Bearing Witness is her response to visiting refugee camps with her daughter. Three enormous pieces depict the experiences of those displaced over land, air and sea.
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This stunningly beautiful work overwhelms with its presence and the gruesome reality of its subject matter. Pretty neon figures are drowning as they try to reach safety. A disturbing dichotomy. •
I haven’t really followed the work of many textile artists yet! I’ve been so wrapped up in natural dyeing which has been, until quite recently, rather niche. So having exceptional work on my doorstep during the first British Textile Biennial was both inspiring and comforting! Textiles has long been seen as too domestic (read female) to reach the lofty heights of fine art but that is changing. I feel we’re all moving into a more authentic era where process and provenance are realised as being more meaningful than the end product. Textiles can have it all though, a mindful process, provenance and beautiful product. •
Again, the level of energy and desire to make a statement, to bring about positive change, really transfers. I feel it and I appreciate it and it makes me want to get active too. •
My friend Jane was once present when a well know environmental artist was creating a new piece of work. A carefully choreographed  team of students awaited a helicopter drop of materials before assembling them as per the artists instructions. Then, the money shots! And job done. I don’t know for sure if Alice stitched all of this herself and to be honest, I can’t imagine how much time that would take but regardless, stitch brings deep human connection to the fabric of life. That is far more impactful to me than some other forms of acclaimed art! 👏🏽
p.s. how I wish I could get a simple paragraph break on Instagram!!! If anyone has cracked this code, please enlighten me!
Instagram post 2171769986507089853_1662264957 Have your say. Simple thoughts and wishes manifest in cloth and stitch, witnessed and re-wished by each viewer reading. The ‘Banner Culture’ exhibition @britishtextilebiennial was so rich with meaning and good intention. 🍂
For thousands of years, people experienced the slow, meditative action of hand sewing. The losing yourself to find yourself. Certain physical actions induce this but when those movements are replaced by remote machinery, our connection not only to ourselves but to the value of our materials is lost. 🍂
There’s something so permanent about declaring your thoughts or feelings on cloth. That makes the work shown during the ‘Banner Culture’ exhibition @britishtextilebiennial all the more powerful. Thanks to all the people who put their energy into it. I felt it all! 💗😍
Instagram post 2171765580248379072_1662264957 I’m so lucky to have a studio, still it does mean I’m working alone most days. This is why I take some time most months to get out and inspire myself. 🦋
This month I spent of couple of days in Lancashire @britishtextilebiennial taking part in a madder masterclass and visiting some brilliant exhibitions. 🦋
This is Brierfield Mill in Nelson. As if the enormous space wasn’t stunning enough, for it to be filled with hand stitched fabric banners with messages of deep care, was so uplifting. 🦋
It so often feels like the dominant forces in our world don’t give a shit about life, nature or humanity. This was a space to restore faith. So many people care. They care enough to take time stitching their love and compassion into messages that spark love and compassion in others. There’s a transference. I think it compares to what in yoga, is called Shakipat or divine transmission. Anything that uplifts is divine in my book. 🦋
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