Press Release - Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Summary: From the Barberini Tapestries to the Bayeux Tapestry, monumental textiles in the form of large-scale narrative embroideries, weaving and tapestries have been used to illustrate contemporary events to become enduring material chronicles. Thread Bearing Witness is a major new series of large textiles, and other works, to be shown at the Whitworth, that considers cultural heritage, refugee displacement and movement, while engaging with individual migrants and their creativity within the wider context of the global refugee crisis. Type: News item Owner: Whitworth Art Gallery   Contact email: amy.george@manchester.ac.uk Last modified: 10/05/2018 Link to this document: https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=37138 Edit (only Administrators)