STITCHING TOGETHER

Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2019 – 2021

Principal Investigator: Dr Emma Shercliff (Arts University Bournemouth)
Co-Investigator: Dr Amy Twigger Holroyd (Nottingham Trent University)

The Stitching Together research network brings together researchers, professional textile practitioners, project commissioners and textile enthusiasts to foster critical dialogue around participatory textile making – making textiles with others – in research and practice.

We are establishing critical dialogue around participatory textile making methods, collating examples of best practice and arguing for their value. We disseminate this knowledge to academic and non-academic audiences and hope to prompt new participatory initiatives.

Outputs of the network include:

• the Stitching Together Good Practice Guidelines, aimed at facilitators of participatory textile making workshops and projects in diverse settings
• a double special issue of the Journal of Arts & Communities, with 15 case study articles critically discussing research projects that involve participatory textile making
• a film that provides an introduction to the network and to the use of participatory textile making in academic research
• a growing collection of online case studies, describing a diverse range of participatory textile making projects in practice and research contexts
• recordings of Stitching Together events: the Good Practice Guidelines launch and the Study Day films, presentations and discussions
• an ‘in conversation’ video, created for National Centre for Research Methods
• a guest post for the Social Research Association blog
• a guest post for the ArtWorks Alliance blog

Further details are available on the Stitching Together website.