Join this creative workshop for some stitching, chatting, and sharing inspired by the museum’s collections.
Explore the connections between migration and textiles, and the ways in which textiles can represent people, movement and culture.
We will be making a fabric patchwork cross in response to the Lampedusa cross, which is on display at PHM as part of A British Museum Spotlight Loan Crossings: community and refuge.
This powerful installation highlights the perilous journeys made by refugees and the ongoing humanitarian crisis; featuring the Lampedusa cross alongside an installation of 12 tiny boats. Using the Japanese boro patchwork technique we will patch pieces of fabric together into a cross shape. The patches and the action of piecing together reflects the need for healing, and people coming together from suffering and hope.
Part of PHM’s programme exploring migration, co-created by a Community Programme Team made up of people whose lives have been shaped by migration.
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