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CONFIGURATIONS AND INDENTS
Commissioned by Trowbridge Museum; Artist exploration of the museum archive as part of West of England Festoval of Textiles.
Configurations - Slideshow 1. 2024 Digital photographs / Projection.
Impressions of the townsfolk through items they held wore and made:
1. Sack Hooks used to move cloth or bales of wool.
2. Shuttle, stockings, burling needles and head & stomach pills.
3. Ruler, cloth marking crayons used at Samuel Salter and Co, Home Mills maybe 1970s, and a tool to draw threads through heddles previously used by Trowbridge worker Joy Harris.
4. Bone handle toothbrush and comb used by Clement and Aubrey Charles; hand weavers and spinners.
5. Calendar, stamp and ash tray.
6. Collections of tools from Salter Ltd (now Trowbridge Museum) including oil stone, scissors and a pair of scissors found on a windowsill the morning after the fire in 1931, with belted broken glass in one of the finger holes.
7. Aprons and bar of carbolic soap, the ration for one family for a month, probably issued 1914 – 1918.
8. Late 19 th century mending set with scissors, thimble, button hook. Pink crepe wool dress worn by Mrs Hilda Robinson when she was married in 1946.
9. Jacket made of different coloured woollen cloth.
10. Patchwork blanket made from cloth made in Trowbridge.
Brush (‘Whisk used to brush waste spile and flick off cloth in the finishing department’). 2024
15cm x 20cm
Eco processed photographic print, framed. Image captured on expired photographic film, developed with DIY caffenol solution, fixed with sea salt. Eco-printed with DIY developer made using wild plants collected around Trowbridge: Hawthorn, stinging- nettle, dandelion, elderflower. Processed and printed in SILT eco darkroom.
Indents - Slideshow 2. 2024
Digital photographs, projected.
A closer look at objects from the museum archive which hold impressions of the townsfolk through the surface marks from use, hand stitching and patinas. From those things held very close to the body to tools used as an extension of the body at work, to the product of labour, these textiles, household items, personal possessions, worn garments and utilitarian objects are the keepers of memories; we can slightly know their users from the traces seen here.
Both slideshows together run for 2:55