“Hail Mary, bobbin lace, serpent's thread ” interweaves her story with that of the Andersson sisters, who, living in Sweden at the brink of the 20th century, spent their lives creating textiles for their wedding coffins. Yet none of the four sisters ever married and their intricate textiles were never to be used, leaving a complex record of their lives while challenging the definition of textile making as a practical fem craft with a singular purpose of domestic use.

Following the words of the feminist textile historian, Rozsika Parker “to know the history of embroidery [and, by extension, the history of textiles] is to know the history of women” I trace tales written with thread, in the act of seeking patterns and stitches between the generations of women before me. The work continues the weaving of these histories in the act of refusal of their erasure.