A Palestinian artist and printmaker based in Scotland, Leena Nammari is one of the artists featured in Thread Memory. Her installation Absence does not mean forgetting (2022) displays 626 porcelain tablets representing a destroyed Palestinian village, town or habitation. The tablets depict the cypress tree, an important motif in tatreez that varies between villages and regions.

With a life spent between Ghana, England and Scotland, textile artist and fashion designer Francia Boakye’s work is inspired by the range of colours and patterns from Kente to Tartan. Francia, also a certified kilt-maker and founder of Frank Francia, led on the creation and display of a community quilt project expressing stories as migrants to Scotland for the Alberta Whittle: Create Dangerously exhibition at National Galleries of Scotland.

Hannah Sabapathy trained at the Royal College Art as a printed textiles designer before starting Studio Plica: a Dundee-based design studio exploring colour, material and the politics of pattern. Her design work ranges from small scale jewellery pieces to large sculptural furniture. Her research (UAL Decolonising Arts Institute, Cove Park, The Harris Museum) examines the impact of colonialism on South Asian textile design alongside British imitations and appropriation.

Miriam Mallalieu is a curator at V&A Dundee, and has worked on Thread Memory, Ninewells Hospital: Care, Community and Innovation and Design Hopes. She is also a mixed-media artist whose practice-based research centres on how museums collect and categorise.