Carrie Scott Huby

   Beautiful song fills the air and envelopes us.     The Noble Singers A most beautiful and fitting closure to Thread and Tread - A Shoddy Silence  honouring and baring witness to all who quietly hold their experiences. And a warm thank you to all who have contributed and supported the project.   Thread and Tread - A Shoddy Silence Residency Closing Event 29th April 20018   Mabgate Mills Rag Sorting in Leeds Photograph courtesy of LEODIS. Contemporary Shoddy Leeds Public contributions to their personal responses regarding War and Textiles   Guard 1 secrets codes of The Textile Industry;  column after column after column perfectly crossed out!    

Thread and Tread - A Shoddy Silence almost at its end. What a journey?  Each day I have worked in Room 700 I have had the pleasure to meet engaging people who have in turn added to my experience and broadened my depth of understanding of  mainly the Textile industry and what it is for individuals to live with their personal 'Silent Witness'.   Khaki Uniforms Left hand side British Army Tunic made from rough mixed-yarn Right hand side German Trousers made from a more generous woollen cloth!   My objective for todays creative work was to consolidate my years long journey of questioning: "How do the two fronts;that of war and that of the textile industry differ or compare"?   Through the questioning I set out to pay homage to all those who experienced both fronts separately or concurrently. I wish to be one such advocate to honour all who gave their working lives and even their own lives through ill health or poor health and saf...

  Room 7oo Leeds Central Library Thread and Tread - A Shoddy Silence       Shoddy Cloth Palls where people are invited to share their experience of working in textiles industry and that of war. The central piece pays homage to the men and perhaps women who were WW1 khaki Uniform, who endured wearing such unforgiving cloth!   Homage to My Grandparents, My Grandfather who inspired my journey of WW1, My Grandmother  The Textiles Industry. Vintage Textiles book  enthusiastically describing textiles in it's many forms, my focus is on  re-cycled cloth.     Guard 1 This piece is in respect to all who were mobilised and demobilised in WW1. Those who gave their lives to the experience of war; who were injured and those who 'lost' their lives.  My premise of this research and subsequent exhibition is to make real the experience of war through singling out a very personal aspect, that of what the cloth which ...

Thread and Tread  - A Shoddy Silence The image below relates St Mungo's Ring relating to St Mungo of Glasgow, thus later relating Batley Mungo and Shoddy Inustry Carrie Scott Huby Artist Book Hnad Block Print   Exhibition Text  Carrie Scott Huby ‘Thread and Tread – A Shoddy Silence’ Exhibition Project title: ‘Thread and Tread’ – A Shoddy Silence’.   The journey began in 2009 in which I explored my thoughts of war and emotive responses to a Family Photograph of my grandfather photographed wearing his WW1 Uniform. Over the years further investigations has led to contemplating how many uniforms would be needed to be produced for the mobilised soldiers? Where were they produced?   Which Leeds Textile Mills they were made-up in? The sourcing and thus the processing of the wool material to make the Uniforms and blankets. How much cloth was actually needed to produce the uniforms and blankets? Did the quality of cloth remain the same as more and m...

Carrie Scott-Huby Room 700 Artist in Residence    Thursday 5 th April – Sunday 29 th April2018 Leeds Central Library,   Calvery Street , The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AB I intend to be available Mondays, Thursday within School hours and Saturday afternoons. Project title: ‘Thread and Tread’ – A Shoddy Silence’. Investigating The West Yorkshire Heavy Woollen Textile Industry before, during and after WW1. Asking the question; ‘How much cloth was needed to make all the WW1 uniforms and blankets’? This has become a journey in itself and has propelled its own story.   I invite people to come and share WW1 and Textile industry stories, to pay reverence by way of collective installation.   Worked image of my Grandfather in his World War One Uniform 2010 Residency at The Art House , Wakefield.  The blanket I obtained during a camping weekend form an Army Surplus stall.    Each item depicts my recent development of 'Silent Witness...