Global threads is the exhibition on in the Whitworth Art Gallery. It is about the use of cotton in our world today and how we are wasting and damaging the environment in our quest to get it. I liked the work in the 1st part of he exhibition which had cotton t-shirts with messages printed on them. They were very simple, yet were direct to the point and really made the audience stop and take notice.
The messages made note of the amount of wastage of water and energy to make even a small amount of cotton clothing, and the insanity of how many different countries a garment has to go to until all the process of its manufactue are completed.
There was also an exhibition of clothing which had been 'upcycled' where students from a local college had taken old clothes, and made something more exciting and beautiful out of them. It should really encourage us to see what we can actually do with the clothes we throw out.
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