Resources

Resources

Conflict Archive on the Internet: Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland (1968 to the Present)

Information about The Public Art & Craft:

Information about artistic precedents of large-scale public community needlework projects for commemoration, women's contributions to public life and for anti-war, non-violence & peace:

Saidie Patterson, Belfast Peace Activist (1906 - 1985) known for her work with mixed communities of working-class women, the first female Linen & Textiles Trade Unionist.

Wartime quilts

the contemporary Ribbon-Around-the-Pentagon  organised by Justine Merritt

The Crystal Quilt directed by Suzanne Lacy, USA, mid-1980s.

The Dinner Party by sculptor Judy Chicago, USA, 1970s.

The Parliamentary House Embroidery designed by tapestry artist Kay Lawrence, OAM & completed by the Embroiderers' Guilds of Australia, 1988

Goldsmiths Prof. Janet Jefferies and the 'textile arts' fence at Greenham Common, 1984

Roses-from-the-Heart, the Australian bonnet project by artist Christina Henri commemorating the passage of women convicts, 2007.