Pieced Work
piecedwork.bsky.social
Pieced Work
@piecedwork.bsky.social
Current project: Textile Message—stories about clothes and other textile objects
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[ed. @cecarlin.bsky.social ]
Kylie Mirmohamadi’s graceful portraits launch Textile Message Series 5
Read here👇
piecedwork.com/2025/11/21/k...
Kylie Mirmohamadi - Pieced Work
I I sort through my memories. The jacket hanging in my cupboard; a Japanese-style grey coat that I found in a vintage shop during the melanoma year. I wore it to a restaurant one night not long after ...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Relive EWF25 with 'EWF X Textile Message' now featuring weekly on our blog! @piecedwork.bsky.social

First up is Anne M Carson's piece, which brings together historical embroidery, synchronicity, and poetic biography.
🦄 Read here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/te...
October 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Tell us how we did! ✨

Our audience feedback survey for EWF25 is now live. We use your feedback to improve our festival for the future. So have your say and help us make the Emerging Writers' Festival even better!

Take the 2-min survey: emergingwritersfestival.wufoo.com/forms/z7pek5...
October 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
EWF x Textile Message at No Vacancy gallery, Naarm. Thanks @emergingwriters.bsky.social for everything ✨
September 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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A stunning night exploring fashion, memory & poetry, with @piecedwork.bsky.social for @emergingwriters.bsky.social 🩷
September 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
If you’re in Naarm / Melbourne this Friday September 12th please join us: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-... @emergingwriters.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Vanguard Editions is super proud to announce publication of ‘The Carbon Arc’, the second in a series of commissioned essays about Cinema.

You can now purchase your copy for £12 incl. UK p&p via PayPal using: vanguardeditions@gmail.com

More details here: richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
August 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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EWF X Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion. This is an artist’s enquiry into significant clothes and other textile objects.
12/9 Naarm/Melbourne - info👇
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...
August 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Beyond excited to be part of the Emerging Writers' Festival 2025 with EWF X Textile Message
No Vacancy Gallery September 12th featuring stories from: Leila Lois, Mira Robertson, Anne M Carson, Julia English, Shu-Ling Chua, Trish Bolton, Emilie Collyer & Clare Carlin (host)
Link to event & tix in bio
August 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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This will be lovely 🤍 please join us — an exhibition curated by @cecarlin.bsky.social

Friday 12 September, 6:00PM, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne

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EWF X Textile Message: An Exhibition - Emerging Writers' Festival
Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion.
emergingwritersfestival.org.au
August 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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When you can't afford a piece of art, but you also can't resist it....
This arrived today from the fabulous Julia Maddison.
God alone knows where I'm going to hang it, but I know it's going to make me laugh a hundred times over. Priceless etc etc.
Happiness is....
June 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I wrote about the joy of conducting ceremonies for new British Citizens, and you can read about it here:
Bea Stitches on Substack
In my non-Cromwelling, non-stitching life, I have another job. I have the enormous privilege of conducting ceremonies for people who are becoming British citizens. I wrote about it for @Christina Pa...
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June 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Took Magnificence I: The Cromwell Textile Cloth out to try to get some pictures but it was a tad windy.

Calico, ink, silk batting, cotton, silk, gold and silver thread. Inspired by a textile inventory from 1528, handwritten by Thomas Cromwell. All hand stitched.
June 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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When someone sends you a photo you've never seen before from 1986 (see right) - and you can say 'Snap' and match it to the exact day nearly 40 years ago. Amazes me to think that we all live on, unawares, in other people's photo albums, like a mysterious independent life...
June 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Griffith Review 90 - ‘Best Dressed’ call for subs
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www.griffithreview.com/for-writers
May 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“Whatever emotions they have in their heart are going to be translated into the textile. When you produce something by hand, it is always going to be unique and beautiful” au.toa.st/blogs/magazi...
The Making of Mulmul in Madhya Pradesh
How fabric is interwoven with heritage and livelihoods in rural India.
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April 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Textile Message: on clothes and other textile objects piecedwork.com/textilemessage
Textile Message - Pieced Work
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January 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
An ongoing literature project piecedwork.com/about
April 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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A substack essay on my love of Françoise Sagan, Isadora Duncan & examining nostalgia 🤍

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March 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
March 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Peace Offer is an interactive dress inspired by this message: for peace to flourish, two sides must come together—at least two hands need to be shaken. Once they do, the white flower blooms.
~ Maia Hirsch 🕊️

www.maia-hirsch.com/peace-offer
March 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Embarking on a huge wardrobe clear out & remembering the last time I did that, forgot about it & walked into the charity shop I’d donated my clothes to a few days later & felt like I’d stumbled into the aftermath of my own death; the eerie vertiginous pathos of things that used to belong to you
March 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Become ungovernable
February 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM