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Film short 'Intertwining Threads' captures Lisa Taylor’s collaborative art project with an ex-industrial carpet manufacturing community in West Yorkshire.
Like many regions of old industrial Britain, Bailliff Bridge was once a thriving manufacturing hub, but began to transform after closure and demolition at century’s turn, into a ‘dormitory’ village. Today, newcomers often work elsewhere, reducing opportunities for community bonding with remaining ex-Firth’s carpet workers.
The film visualises a suite of inter-generational public engagement activities designed to promote cohesion, including an exhibition of photographs produced by workshops designed with artist Catherine Bertola, in which the hand-skills of carpet-making were passed on to newcomers. Capturing the processes of healing a community mired by the losses of deindustrialisation through - the film acts to show how the project enabled the whole community to commemorate the lost labour of the region’s industrial pride in carpet manufacture.
Intertwining Threads
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