Silk Museum by Estella Scholes

Ghosts in the Machine 1 & 2.

Visiting the Silk Museum and the Mill next door gave me so many abstract images, looking through the old machinery with its complex threading. I was drawn to the rows and rows of wooden bobbins which sit there, waiting in vain to be put to use again. To me they evoked all the many hands that wound them and set them up to create those long ago fabrics. I simplified and abstracted the idea, giving the bobbins more texture to remind us of their colourful past, the threads cut off and abandoned.