Skip to main content

100 Metres Dash (work in progress)

By Marilyn Rathbone 2011

Dimensions
braid: 100 metres long (when completed)

"My dream is to complete 100 Metres Dash. With a lot of hard work, and if I braid as well as I can, in 2012 I hope to achieve that dream." Marilyn Rathbone, 15.3.2011 Materials: Como silk, wooden reel, black card, paper, book, DVD Techniques: hand-braided Lucet cord
Nbgjnsy6rks7qyl9ixjyfq Marilyn Rathbone

6 Degrees of Separation

First Steps

Pi in the Sky (close up)

Join Axis

We support artists

Funding, visibility, connection and practical help. 

Membership includes £15 million of Public Liability Insurance!

Axis is an independent charity, funded by our members. 
Become a Member

OPEN: £50,000 directly to artists.

Axis Artist Awards 2026

The Axis Artist Awards support artists to develop their practice, test ideas, make work and keep going. 

Learn more