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Bound

A Memoir of Making and Remaking

Maddie Ballard author Emma Dai'an Wright illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The Emma Press

Published:10th Oct '24

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Bound cover

A quiet celebration of the value of craft in a digital age.

An innovative memoir debut from Maddie Ballard on living a life shaped by patterns and crafting, stitched through with threads of love, family and heritage.

In a new home, relationships shift, and ties fray. Bound: A Memoir of Making and Remaking is a collection of essays about sewing and knowing who you are.

Each chapter in this sewist's diary charts the crafting of a different garment. From a lining embroidered with the Cantonese names of her female ancestors to a dressing gown holding the body of a beloved friend, Maddie Ballard navigates love, personal connections, and self-care, drafting her own patterns for ways of living.

Lyrical, probing, soothing and wise, Bound is a strikingly original debut and a quiet celebration of the remarkable, everyday process of making and re-making: of cloth, of clothing, and of ourselves.

ISBN: 9781915628305

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 8mm

Weight: 176g