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Underlying Threads: Interpreting the Textile History of a Mill Town
May 30, 2015
FreeCommon Street Arts (CSA), in partnership with the Surface Design Association of Maine, has organized a thought-provoking exhibition highlighting the continuing significance of textile mills to Maine communities. Underlying Threads: Interpreting the Textile History of a Mill Town comprises a rich variety of works that honor, question, and interpret Maine’s historic ties to textile manufacturing.
Working in diverse, textile-based mediums, ten artists weave, embroider, crochet, knot and stitch to create intricate quilts, rag rugs, tapestries, as well as fabric-based paintings, collages and sculptures. Subjects include the symbiotic relationships between the river, mill, and people; the significance of the mills’ demise; the ways in which women’s social history may be traced through needlework; the environmental impact of industrialization; and many others. As a whole, the works in this exhibition seek to illuminate the legacy of these textile mills in the twenty-first century.
Gallery Hours: Wed.-Sat., Noon - 6:00 p.m.