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Afghan Embroidery

Details from a large (3.5x1.2 metres) embroidered work in silk. It’s from a project entitled ‘Success to the Afghans, Success to the Danes’. A collaborative piece done through Bluecoat Connect, working with a group of young Afghan refugees. The subject comes from a book – an inventory – of Danish migrant workers in Liverpool around 1910-1920. The book, found in a skip, contains photographs and names of people registered here. The banner was shown in the Central Library’s Picton Reading Room, and now hangs in St Anne’s Church in Overbury Street.