Needlebound Vol. 3 London Launch Party!!
Needlebound is an annual print publication archiving the online fiber arts community. Volume 3, Thread Geographies, collects work from 40 contributors around a single question: how can fibre measure space today?For millennia, land was measured with fibre. Egyptian surveyors were known as "rope-stretchers" because they pulled knotted cords taut between stakes. But rope stretched when wet and tightened in the sun, so a meadow measured in April and again in August could produce two different answers. Neither was wrong. Each recorded the field as it existed on a particular day.In 1620, the mathematician Edmund Gunter replaced the cord with a sixty-six-foot iron chain, which held its length through rain and heat. It made land legible to law and to markets. It also required agreeing that a place is a quantity, and that the day you measure it does not matter.Four centuries later, technology has inherited that agreement. A phone counts our steps precisely, but not why we move through a place, what we felt while we were there, or what makes one stretch of ground matter more than another.The artists in Volume 3 take the rope's position, treating variability as information rather than error and using fibre to measure memory, movement, and attachment to place as forms of spatial knowledge.The evening opens with a Q&A with founder and editorial director Hayley Mortin (Dazy Chains), followed by readings from several Volume 3 contributors. All three volumes will be available for purchase. Card and PayPal accepted.
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