Author Talk: Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle with Clare Hunter
Join us on Sunday, November 8 at 11 AM (via Zoom) for our a special PA Fibershed Book Club Meeting, as we gather for a thoughtful, hour-long discussion around Threads of Life A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle with guest speaker and author, Clare Hunter.
Whether you plan to read every page or just want to listen in, this will be a meaningful conversation where we’ll get a rare chance to speak with the author about her work, writing process and explore how textiles and hand stitching have served as tools of storytelling, resistance, identity, and political expression.
📚 All are welcome! If you’re not already on our book club list, complete the sign-up form in the link below, and we will contact you with the Zoom link for PA Fibershed’s Book Club.
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We look forward to seeing you there!
About the Author:
Clare Hunter has been a community textile artist, banner maker and textile curator for over twenty years and established the award-winning community sewing enterprise NeedleWorks in Glasgow in the 1980s. Threads of Life: the History of the World through the Eye of a Needle, was her first book. It was warmly received, reaching The Sunday Times Bestseller List, chosen as Waterstone’s Book of the Month in Scotland and BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week and becoming joint winner of the Saltire Award for First Book. Her second book, Embroidering her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power, was published in March 2022, reached the Scottish Books Bestseller list and was an inspiration for Dior’s 2024 Cruise Collection in Scotland. Her third book, Making Matters: In Seach of Creative Wonders, was published in August 2025.
‘Clare Hunter is out to reclaim the joy of making for the masses…no act of creativity is too humble, too ephemeral for this hymn to the sensory wonder and connectivity of the homemade.’
-OBSERVER
‘A celebration of the overlooked artistry in crafts practised across the world.’
-THE TIMES
‘Making Matters is an open door to the power of craft. Now inspired, I’m off to get
creative.’
-DAILY EXPRESS