{"product_id":"fancy-work","title":"Fancy Work","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"summary\" class=\"entry-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eWhat can a scrap of embroidery tell us about how to live? How can the past help us imagine unconstrained lives when not all traces remain? To explore these questions, Alice Hattrick turns to the embroidery designer May Morris and her circle, including her father William Morris; her mother Jane, an artist’s model and embroiderer herself; and MF, May’s gender non-conforming partner of twenty years. Through this queer encounter with the Arts and Crafts movement, Hattrick shifts attention from dominant narratives of design towards intimacy, labour and domestic life. Looking to May – alongside others who have found in textiles a means of resistance – Hattrick traces connections between these histories and their own queer identity, family ties and precarious working conditions within an ableist society. Expansive in thought, form and time, \u003cem\u003eFancy Work\u003c\/em\u003e together archival fragments, domestic spaces and ongoing sites of struggle, insisting on the political force of often overlooked acts of defiance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"read_more_content\" class=\"entry-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e‘This illuminating, expansive and intricately connected book on embroidery made me giddy with the ideas and knowledge it reveals. In detailing so diligently the histories, practices and techniques of needlework, insights into craft as a whole open up.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFancy Work\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eshows how fluency in non-linguistic forms enriches language, sharpens political thought and articulates some of the most radical ways of living.’\u003cbr\u003e— Holly Pester, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lodgers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e‘There are so many layers to this book; every page left my mind brimming with detail, colour and affection. \u003cem\u003eFancy Work\u003c\/em\u003e somehow contains multitudes while remaining clear, intimate and curiously joyful. I knew at once it was a book I would treasure and return to.’\u003cbr\u003e— Sara Baume, author of \u003cem\u003eSeven Steeples\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alice Hattrick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57008540287354,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/6778\/8068\/files\/E3C5C0AE-064A-4140-9CED-04A82D2307A0.jpg?v=1782400393","url":"https:\/\/raremags.co.uk\/products\/fancy-work","provider":"Rare Mags","version":"1.0","type":"link"}