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Making Matters

In Search of Creative Wonders

Author: Clare Hunter  

Making Matters
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The new book from Sunday Times-bestselling author and community textile artist and historian Clare Hunter: An exploration of under-appreciated craft practices and the ways that they have inspired people through history - and how they can open up imaginative space for us today.

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The new book from Sunday Times-bestselling author and community textile artist and historian Clare Hunter: An exploration of under-appreciated craft practices and the ways that they have inspired people through history - and how they can open up imaginative space for us today.

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As children, we made things: snowmen, paper boats, eccentrically costumed plays. That making fired our minds and imaginations - it altered our small worlds and shaped who we became. But as adults, it is hard to find to find the space for creativity and to remember its power.

Exploring craft traditions and forms of making from across centuries and cultures, Clare Hunter encourages to engage with the world afresh. To use our hands again, to see beauty in unexpected places, to play and protest and embrace imaginative possibilities. She explores paper crafts and fabric projects, even light and snow, in search of creative delight - making lanterns, puppets and pinhole cameras.

Inspiring and fascinating, Making Matters celebrates individual and collective creativity. It blends history, culture and politics with rich storytelling, wonderful characters and tales of remarkable objects. Read this, and then make something.

PRAISE FOR THREADS OF LIFE:

"An astonishing feat . . . Her highly impressive debut is a richly textured and moving record of a history that has largely being lost" Sunday Times

"Enthralling...beautiful... An inspiring and moving sideways look at history" Sunday Express

"A beautifully considered book . . . Clare Hunter has managed to mix the personal with the political with moving results" Tracy Chevalier

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About the Author

Clare Hunter has been a banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator for over twenty years and established the community enterprise NeedleWorks in Glasgow. Her first book, Threads of Life, won the Saltire First Book Award, was a Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month and a Radio 4 Book of the Week.

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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton | Sceptre
Published
14th August 2025
Pages
320
ISBN
9781529346305

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