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Figure 1 Sunday Pursuits textile craft workshop at The Workers' Museum, Copenhagen. Women from Tingbjerg and women from other parts of Copenhagen get together. Two groups of women who seldom meet, but when doing so, find great pleasure in exchanging knowledge about handicraft techniques. October 2019. Photo: Linda Nørgaard Andersen.
Figure 2 Sunday Pursuits textile craft event, on October 24, 2021, with the theme of embroidery, The National Museum of Denmark. Rubina Shaheen (left) and Samera Jamill enjoyed working with the old motifs from the Viking Age cloak found in a grave at Mammen, Denmark. On the same day, the group visited the exhibition The Raid, telling the story of the Vikings who raided locations as far away as the Mediterranean Sea and Central Asia. Photo: Gitte Engholm.
Figure 3 Detail of Viking Age motif as sample embroidery, used in a Sunday Pursuits textile craft event, on October 24, 2021, with the theme of embroidery, The National Museum of Denmark. Embroiderer Katrine Gudmundson had prepared patterns and yarns in advance, inspired by the museum collections. Photo: Gitte Engholm.
Figure 4 Sunday Pursuit textile craft event, September 20, 2020, with demonstration of crochet techniques, The National Museum of Denmark. Photo: Sofie Clausager Dar.
Figure 5 Workshop on crochet at The National Museum of Denmark. Mutual admiration for each other's masterpieces. September 20, 2020. Photo: Henriette Rolf Larsen.
Figure 6 Sunday Pursuits at The National Museum of Denmark. Crochet skills are passed over to the next generation. December 2019. Photo: Henriette Rolf Larsen.
Figure 7 Sunday Pursuits at The National Museum of Denmark. Participants display home-made handicrafts. September 20, 2020. Photo: Henriette Rolf Larsen.
Figure 8 Textile artist Rezvan Farsijani assembles her textile art piece in Athens, September 2021. It consisted of embroidered panels made by her creative embroidery communities of refugee women in Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, and France. Photo: Marie-Louise Nosch.
Figure 9 Solveig Søndergaard demonstrates an art piece signed by Sheema. Embroidery on printed fabric. July 2021. Solveig Søndergaard and refugee and migrant women in Kolding and Tingbjerg made use of their own childhood memories. From the artistic textile work project Stitched Stories. Photo: Marie-Louise Nosch.
Figure 10 Fardos Mosa and Naghem Jasim (right) in the workshop creating pennants, Tingbjerg 2022. Photo: Bettina Andersen.
Figure 11 Display of textile handcrafted products made by the Igne:Oya and sold in FLUGT—The Refugee Museum’s gift shop. Designer Käte Kofoed Espersen who is in charge of the merchandise sold in the museum shop comes to Tingbjerg to buy handicraft products for the museum gift shop. March 20, 2022. Photo: Anne Sørensen.
Figure 12 Textile terminology session in the Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen. The session participants discussed textile-related vocabulary in Arabic, Tigrinya, English, and French, aided by images and dictionaries. Photo: Jane Malcolm-Davies.
Figure 13 A mapping exercise using a previous project exploring Arabic words for loom technology in Jordan as a starting point. Two interns spoke Tigrinya as their mother tongue and, having learned to knit during their first few days as interns, worked to build up relevant Tigrinya terminology for knitting and weaving. Photo: Christian Gaubert.
Figure 14 Alem Haile knitting as part of her internship at Center for Textile Research. The knitting activities were both for social interaction and to collect textile craft terminology in Tigrinya. December 2017. Photo: Susanne Lervad.
Figure 15 Nagheem Jasim started in Igne:Oya and continued in formal education in textile design in 2022. Here photographed in class at University College Copenhagen. Photo: Anne Sørensen.
