Acknowledgments

 

Many people have contributed to my textile cabinet of wonders in one way or other. Not all of them might appear in this list, some have chosen to remain anonymous. If your name should but does not appear on the list, please let me know.

My heart-felt gratitude and appreciation to:

 

The Centre for Narrative Research (University of East London): Giving my research a home

http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/index.htm

 

My PhD supervisors: Unfaltering support throughout

Maria Tamboukou www.uel.ac.uk/hss/staff/tamboukou-maria.htm

Molly Andrews www.uel.ac.uk/hss/staff/molly_andrews/index.htm

Fiona Carson www.uel.ac.uk/hss/staff/fiona_carson/index.html

 

Inspiration and encouragement at key moments and in tricky times

Chris Mullen http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/index2.htm

Margaret Huber http://margarethuber.blogspot.com/

Jens Brockmeier http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~brockmei/

Invitations to visit and great conversations, showing me their work and telling me their stories

Waltraud Mattern http://kunsthandwerk-nrw.de/manufactum/manufactum2001/manufactum2001.html

Deirdre Nelson http://www.deirdre-nelson.com/

 

Website design and technical support

Claudia Potton http://www.claudiapotton.co.uk/

 

Help with website design

Penda Tomlinson,  Antonia Okuleye, Ratan Singh Phamber

 

Videoclips

Julia McGill http://www.youtube.com/user/1hi23

 

Music (Pin & Palimpsests video clip)

No Distance, from Details in a Bigger Picture (2008)

by On Purpose www.myspace.com/onpurposeband

 

Technical support: Textile printmaking

Lesley Robertson www.uel.ac.uk/ava/staff/lesleyrobertson.htm

Mika Nash www.uel.ac.uk/ava/staff/UELAVA-StaffProfile-MikaNash.htm

 

Hosting the Exhibition Mirabilia Domestica (2010)

Museum of Domestica Design and Architecture (MoDa) at Middlesex University

http://www.moda.mdx.ac.uk/index.htm

My special thanks to curator Zoe Hendon for inviting me

 

Technical  Support: Exhibition Set and Design 2010

Paul Hoffman

 

Installation assistants for Mirabilia @ MoDA 2010

Alex Wills, Rachel Bouch, Sara Noble, Sarah Watts

 

Free Samples of Thermochromic ink

David Croxford, Cornelius Group plc http://www.cornelius.co.uk/

 

Financial support

Arts and Humanities Research Council  http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx (Doctoral Award)

University of East London, School of Humanities and Social Sciences http://www.uel.ac.uk/hss/ (Exhibition of work at MoDA August 2010)

 

Sharing their stories and/or donating  fabrics

Luna Alvarez Barreras

Joaquin Alvarez Mata

Carmen Alvarez Mata

Puri Barreras

Daphne Barret Rossi

Anna Borsey

Ming Chang Tien

Martina Dawson

Arielle Dudok de Wit

Shelley Fowles

Gisela Goett

Karen Goett

Marianne Herrmann

Joy Howell

Gisela Krolak

Nelica LaGro

Britta Maas

Doerte Massow

Jane Montague

Carmen Padilla Moledo

Andrew Parker

Carmen Puche

Fiona Rigg

Ana Rodrigo

Estrella Ryan

Claudia Ullrich-Schiwon

Jennifer Strong

Maggie Toner-Edgar

Annie Wang

Ulla Wuellner Rellecke

Jo-chieh Yao

... and more to be added ...