Folk Art

Folk Art is a prototype sleeping bag liner and pouch as a gift for people without a home in Bradford created in collaboration with Steve Swindells. In such problematic and sensitive circumstances, we became interested in how we could recycle textiles to make sleeping bag liners as a special crafted ‘gift’, to provide dignity and warmth through trapped air. Each liner is ironed and folded in a unique way, speaking of individuality. We take the word folk art (sometimes referred to as people’s art, or working-class art) and reverse and overlay it upon itself; embroidered onto to the liners pouch. The mirroring of folk art and the image of the ancient earth-work of the ‘Long Man of Wilmington’ captures our thinking; it intimates the body in a secure frame, possibly at rest and hopefully in peace.