KEEPING
GLASGOW IN STITCHES
Keeping
Glasgow in stitches was a major community arts projects organised
by the community sewing project "Needleworks" and Glasgow
Museums. The project was commissioned for 1990, when Glasgow was
European City of Culture. The idea was to create twelve banners,
one for each month of the year and the designs were to celebrate
various aspects of the people, culture and life of Glasgow. Malcolm
Lochhead was responsible for the creation of a concept design that
carried through each banner and also included an "inner image"
designed by other artists and craftspeople. Each banner measures
eighteen by four and a half feet and was executed by over six hundred
people of all ages and technical abilities. They involve every conceivable
technique involving thread and fabric. Each banner was made month
by month in the great hall of Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery. When
placed together the banners spell out GLASGOW - 1990. The river
Clyde flows through the banners and changes character with the different
months and happenings associated with it.
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