Textile, Trade and Terror examines how textiles are entangled and woven into distant histories and the more recent past, memory and reclamation. Developed and edited by the artistic research project Fabricating Agency, the book follows the trade routes of fabrics such as damask and lace, connecting geographically distant places into a polyphonic fabric of recollection, refusal and possible futures.
At the heart of this publication lies a quilt: sixteen meters long and three meters wide, it is both artwork and method. Composed of fabrics that bear traces of colonial entanglements as well as resilience, care, and joy, the quilt assembles stories, memories, and gestures into a living archive. It bears witness to relations of power, modes of belonging, and forms of knowledge that have passed through hands, bodies and generations.
Mark Pezinger Books, 208pp, 23cm x 32cm, illustrated paperback, 2026
