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Issue 1 Isolation Letter from the Editor Contributors & Staff Essays The Architecture of Isolation Sweatpants and Anxiety in the Age of Covid Memory Palace An Isolated Space for Worship Makers Dan Coopey Celia Pym Wafa Ghnaim Cody Tumblin Lindsay Degen Molly Haynes Justin Chance Bryana Bibbs Features Enter The Monastery From Still Life to Altar Nunozori Solace in Cloth The Mask Becomes Us The Materiality of Isolation Table of Contents Issue 1 / All Stories Feature Enter The Monastery My latest collection, and its life in quarantine. Feature Nunozori The story of self, in the Japanese domestic rag slipper. Maker My Palestinian Skin, A Dream Contemporary politics in the traditional Palestinian embroidery of Wafa Ghnaim. Maker The Exquisite Isolation of Chaos The weaving work of artist Molly Haynes. Feature The Materiality of Isolation Our pandemic condition as three concepts of form. Maker Autonomy and Panculture The woven sculptures of artist Dan Coopey. Maker Celebrating the Evidence of Life, through Repair The visible mending work of Celia Pym. Maker Stitched Into Bloom Alchemy and improvisation in the paintings of artist Cody Tumblin. Essay Memory Palace Artist Doug Baulos contemplates queer identity, cloth story telling and making in a series of sewn banners. Feature The Mask Becomes Us Finding our identity in the pandemic’s most ubiquitous garment. Essay Sweatpants and Anxiety in the Age of Covid The garment’s origin, and its newfound place at the top of the heap. Feature Solace in Cloth Children’s quilt blocks from The Social Justice Sewing Academy. Essay An Isolated Space for Worship Looking at prayer rugs in the time of the pandemic. Maker The Melancholy of the Hand-Me-Down The quilted works of Justin Chance. Feature From Still Life to Altar Placement, memory and object in the tableaux vivants of Amy Schireson. Maker The (A)Lone Star Quilt A Pandemic-made Quilt, by artist Lindsay Degen. Maker The Quarantine Series A diary of weavings by Bryana Bibbs. Essay The Architecture of Isolation The smocking work of Annie Coggan.
Maker My Palestinian Skin, A Dream Contemporary politics in the traditional Palestinian embroidery of Wafa Ghnaim.
Essay Memory Palace Artist Doug Baulos contemplates queer identity, cloth story telling and making in a series of sewn banners.
Essay Sweatpants and Anxiety in the Age of Covid The garment’s origin, and its newfound place at the top of the heap.
Feature From Still Life to Altar Placement, memory and object in the tableaux vivants of Amy Schireson.