Rachael Matthews and Louise Harries on Working with Wool… AKA ‘Louder than Bombs’

The Prick Your Finger haberdashery, with hand-crocheted signage made of Rough Fell wool Yarn [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/68272572″ iframe=”true” /] The Prick Your Finger jingle, made by Felicity Ford during the first KNITSONIK residency, 2011 Last year during WOVEMBER we featured this piece about Rachael Matthews and the Prick Your Finger haberdashery, highlighting some of the ways… Continue Reading Rachael Matthews and Louise Harries on Working with Wool… AKA ‘Louder than Bombs’

Prick Your Finger

In a world where widespread knowledge of where and how clothes are made exists, it would be unthinkable to describe a pair of viscose shorts as “woollen” because everybody would know at once that this was nonsense. Yet as long as there are enormous gaps between producers and consumers of clothes on the High Street,… Continue Reading Prick Your Finger