From Home With Love

From Home, With Love is a poignant yet powerful installation - a highlight of the SLQ Distant Lines exhibition that highlights the important and therapeutic role that craft played in World War I.

Rather than be seen as a sad wartime pastime, for the loved ones of soldiers fighting at the front, wartime crafting – knitting, sewing and darning - was a morale-building and positive activity that enabled them to offer comfort from afar via a physical and tangible object of love.

And it was this crafting driven by a common well-meaning goal that united families and communities together at home and across the world, while also reflecting age-old ideas of offering love, luck and protection through handmade talisman-type objects.

Adding an interactive aspect to From Home, With Love, crafting organisation The Stitchery Collective explores how cloth can become imbued with powerful feelings, comfort and memories by inviting visitors to wear and feel cloth that is heavy with memories.

Need to know – From Home, With Love launches with a special free Friday evening event to mark the unveiling of the amazing tactile collection from the Stitchery Collective. Jun 5 6pm.

Images Courtesy of State Library of Queensland