Codes: Textiles as carriers of individual and collective stories
Textiles are more than a piece of cloth made from fibres. Textiles contain codes on many different levels that need to be decoded and lead us into different worlds.
There are textiles that obviously tell a story, as they use the textile medium to capture narratives, e.g. in the form of embroidered or woven images. The Bayeux Tapestry is a wonderful example of this.
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