The project explores the relationship between women's history in the textile industry of West Yorkshire and the advancement of information and technology, which has given birth to computer-powered textile production.

Holes Linings Threads is metaphorically located in the geographies and economics of (m)any northern textile town(s). Industrial towns affected by continuous processes of decline and renewal as a result of economic developments, change in population and migrancy, which in turn have produced changes in the social and urban configuration. Previously spaces of intense productivity, the mills, at one time landmarks of activity and perhaps part of the identity of these town, became empty and derelict.

This project gave me the opportunity to learn another language and form required on the Internet and apply my previous skills in new media. Through the Internet as an exhibition site , Holes Linings Threads , had the possibility to develop manifold constructions, juxtaposing texts with reflections and analysis, adding to a different way of registering, a different way of interviewing, and a different way of using archives and publication. In this project, I tried to create an open piece, a network of traces through short ³essays². On these ³essays² I tried to explore the relationship between textile production, with it's punch card operation, and the computers around the world, powered by switches.

As a preliminary stage for the project, a lot of research was done through a variety of material from libraries to archives as well as interviewing elderly local women mill workers, to a contemporary writer Sadie Plant, author of Zeros and Ones. Visiting mills that were still working or about to close down, derelict and empty places of work, photographing , recording ,video those spaces was integrated in the visuals of the project. This array of sources plus texts and quotes selected from an extensive bibliography, helped to provide inspiration and material for the final project. Bringing together text, voices and images from the past and future to create a new narrative network between text and town.