The YSJ Fabric Project is an exciting and innovative Creative Writing project on York St John University campus.
Initially it aims to explore the powerful meanings that clothes have for us – that they can change our view of the world and the world’s view of us – by gathering as many clothes stories as possible from across campus. We want to know what your clothes mean to you. You might want to tell us about a particular garment that has a special significance, or a moment when you realised the power of how you dressed. Our researchers will be gathering your stories on campus over the next few weeks.
Let us know that you would like to be interviewed or send us your clothes story to: ysjfabricproject@outlook.com
The project will then upcycle your stories and weave them into a larger fabric with the stories of garment workers, to highlight the intimate global relations between garment wearers in the global north and west and garment makers in the global south and east.. These global lives touch each other invisibly and daily through the fabric of our clothes.
The project will culminate in the production of a piece of textual fabric in September 2018. Quotes from our campus clothes stories and quotes from garment workers’ stories will be reproduced on recycled fabric and students will weave these together to represent the global social fabric produced by the clothes we wear and produce a piece a beautiful piece of textual fabric. This will be displayed as part of an exhibition on campus. Fabric: the clothes we wear and the stories they tell.
Tell us your stories. Be part of the fabric.