This week at Pulling Together we continued with our project “Our Family Tree”. The young women have been talking about the experiences that their parents and grandparents talked about. They likened the isolation that these first migrants felt to the past year and how during lockdown we have been unable to meet up with family and friends. Using their stories we hope to create individual artwork that can be combined to create a larger piece of art that can be displayed at Limelight and at future Pulling Together events. Using applique and embroidery is important as often many of the grandmothers who first came to England were able to use these techniques in making traditional clothes for family members.
Some of the group talked about how the only way to contact the family back home was via letter and often with an aerogramme letter or a call booked through the operator and in an emergency a telegram.
Pulling Together Asian Women's Group 