Introduction Prof Lesley Millar (UCA Farnham, UK) and Prof Alice Kettle, (MSARC, Manchester School of Art Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Section 1: Reading the Record 1. Tenapi: Markers of Clan Identity of the Alurung Culture, East Indonesia Linda S. McIntosh, (Independent Curator and Research Associate, Tracing Patterns Foundation, and Yulianti Peni, Curator, Museum 1000 Moko, Alor Regency, Indonesia) 2. The Powerful Whispers project: A re-imagined story of mills, menders and archived family memories Robert Burton, (Associate Dean Academic, Teesside University, UK) 3. Drapery and napery: lace war memorials Dr Carol Quarini (Independent Artist Researcher UK) 4. Clothing, Nationalism and Cultural Identity: The Symbolism of Traditional Attire in Defining Nigeria's Diverse Ethnic Indigenism Dr Clement Emeka Akpang (Cross River University of Technology Nigeria) The Read/Red Thread Part 1 Alice Kettle in discussion with Amneh Shaikh-Farooqui (co-founder Polly and Other Stories, Pakistan) Section 2: Challenging the Reading 5. Bad, Bold and Dangerous: Suffragette embroidered cloths worked in Holloway Prison, 1911-1912 Dr Denise Jones (Independent Artist Researcher UK) 6. Stitching Justice: Textiles as a Means for Contemporary Social Justice Alicia Decker, (Iowa State University, Portland State University, Centralia College USA) 7.

Textile histories re-surface in powerful performances of craft Dr Mary Stark (Independent Artist/Researcher, UK) 8. Cuttings 1820 - 2020 Pippa Hetherington (Independent Artist/Researcher, South Africa) The Read/Red Thread Part 2 Lesley Millar in discussion with the American artist Erin M Riley (Independent Artist Researcher, USA) Section 3: Following the thread 9. Robe a la Grand-Mere: Re-use of 18th century silk in Romantic era dress Ruby Hodgson, (Victoria and Albert Museum, UK) 10. Layers of Comfort: Shetland taatit rugs Carol Christiansen, (Curator and Community Museums Officer, Shetland Museum and Archives, Lerwick, Shetland) 11. Cloth and Process of Making: The Cultural Making Process Lokesh Ghai, (Independent Artist/ Researcher India) 12. Transformations in the Making and Meaning of Barkcloth in Uganda'. Venny Mary Nakazibwe. (Makerere University, Margaret Trowell School of Industrial & Fine Art, College of Engineering Design Art and Technology, Kampala, Uganda) The Read/Red Thread Part 3 Alice Kettle in discussion with Peju Layiwola (Professor, University of Lagos, Nigeria) Section 4: Drafting the future 13.

E-textiles: How tooling, embodiment, community, and textile knowledges can refigure technological futures PLUSEA: Laura Devendorf (Assistant Professor of Information Science, ATLAS Institute Fellow, at the University of Colorado, Boulder. USA) Irene Posch (Professor of Design & Technology at the University of Art and Design Linz, Austria) Hannah Perner-Wilson (Guest Professor of the Spiel&&Objekt Masters program at the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin Germany) Becca Rose Glowacki (doctoral student at Goldsmiths, University of London) 14. The Coded Lab Dr Sonja Andrews (University of Huddersfield, UK) 15. Cloth, techné, and traces in digital fashion Katharina Sand, (Kunstuniversität Linz A/ Università della Svizzera italiana CH) 16. Ananas Anm Dr Carmen Hijosa (InnovationRCA and founder of Piñatex®) The Read/Red Thread Part 4 Lesley Millar in discussion with the German artist Katharina Hinsberg (Artist and Professor for Conceptual Painting, Saar College of Fine Arts, Germany) Index.