Garment Ghosts
Garment Ghosts are created from badly damaged and irreparable antique clothing, which I give new life to by remaking.
The fragmentary cloth is brought back to life through trapping the disintegrating garment between transparent layers, keeping the outline of the piece but also opening up seam allowances and pleats to take the fabric back to its original form. Garment Ghosts aim to make you think about how we preserve and present textiles, and what the garment might tell us about its past.
Ruth Singer
Leicester, England