Textile Protest, 9781849949071
Hardcover
Threads of resistance: Unraveling history’s most powerful textile protests.
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Textile Protest

artists, activism and the historical power of cloth in protest

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  • Hardcover

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    11 August 2025

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Summary

Stitching Resistance: A History of Textile Protest

A landmark survey of how textiles have been used for political protest in the 20th and 21st centuries, including banners, flags, clothing and pieces from the world of fine art.

Textile Protest showcases the richness and diversity of textiles that have been used to express resistance in its many forms. Protest textiles can be confrontational and explicit, satirical and subversive or ironic and humoro…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781849949071
ISBN-10:1849949077
Author:Julia Triston
Publisher:Batsford
Imprint:Batsford
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:11 August 2025
Weight:0g
Dimensions:276mm x 216mm
About The Author

Julia Triston

Julia Triston is a designer-maker and educator in stitched textiles, with over 30 years’ experience teaching in the creative industries. She lectures at degree level, and delivers seminars and training courses in universities, colleges and schools. Julia’s work has appeared on television as well as being extensively documented in written media, and she regularly uses upcycled underwear for feminist art pieces, appearing on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2009 in one of her ‘Bra-ra’ dresses. She lives in Denmark.

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