Today we visited the art gallery that sits on our doorstep. Our breif was to take inspiration and create a piece that reflected one or two items from the museum/gallery. These two items of Blackburn's history particularly interested me, they are about the working classes living in Blackburn during the cotton industry. Lancashire was a key hotspot for cotton mills and the working classes lives evolved around this. Not only did they eveolved around this but they evolved around beer and drinking. In the information at the museum it said Blackburn was considered the 'beeriest town in England'. Mrs Lewis' Temperance Mission tried to reduce drinking in the area with some success.
The second item I looked at was a machine from the mills in the area. I mixed the history of the working class in the area to create my interpretation shown in the picture below. I used free stitch and random fabrics to create this worn down look, with the wheel being the eye catching part of it.
The found fabrics reflect the conditions that the working class would live in, they are run down. The working class would use whatever they could find as they were living in a very poor way.
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