Stitching the Wars

A Bomber's Moon, photographed at Lyme Park by Garry Lomas

I'm familiar with stitching

Decorative edges

Stitching the blackout

Grandad sewing

Lord Mountbatten's uniform

I'm familiar with stitching

A hosiery factory

The explosions amazing

When I think of sewing

Mother's doing buttonholes for dad

Playing the treadle

Sewing the machine

Dressmaking, I'm familiar with

Stitching

Aunties embroidering

Putting the colours in their order.

Hazel

Buxton

From the arthur+martha project Stitching the Wars. A Two year collaboration with older people in Derbyshire, producing two embroidered quilts, a book, interviews and a series of poems. 

More poems found here. A short documentary film about the project found here.