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| screen grab from Threads of Feeling website |
I've been meaning to mention Threads of Feeling for ages. It's an exhibition that's been on at the Foundling Museum in Coram's Fields, London, and I see that it's just finished (sorry for bad timing). But my post is really about the associated website,
www.threadsoffeeling.com.
This is a really beautiful website that records the scraps of fabric that women put in with their babies when they left them at the Foundling Hospital at the end of the eighteenth century. When the babies were left, the Hospital renamed them and sent them into the countryside to be nursed. Effectively their links to their mothers were broken, except for these little pieces of cloth, which could be matched to those kept by the mothers, if they were ever in a position to come back for their children.
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| screen grab from Threads of Feeling website |
Here's is a lovely article from the Guardian that
explains in more detail. The exhibition and website were put together by Professor John Styles at University of Hertfordshire where I work.
