A commissioned essay, tracing the papermilling heritage of Scotland to the British Linen Bank and Scotland's exports to the Caribbean of slave cloth, also known as osnaburgs. The etymology of linen is explored, alongside the links between collecting textile rags for pulping in traditional papermaking processes with the historic references to tabloid newspapers as 'rags' in a British context.
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For Remnants, written and illustrated commissions from Tiffany Boyle, Jade Halbert, Caitlin MacLeod, Rhona Warwick Paterson, Laura Richmond and Louise Welsh and conversations between Fiona Sinclair with Mairi Laverty, Adele Patrick with Akiko Kobayashi, Kirsteen Borland with Heather Claridge and Anne Duff with Cathy Houston, pay attention to how women’s contributions have been rendered in/visible through the formation and use of urban space in Glasgow’s Merchant City and beyond. Remnants is a part of 'Of Lovely Tyrants and Invisible Women', a programme, curated by Civic Room, featuring four solo exhibitions by artists, Lauren Printy Currie, Ashanti Harris, Thulani Rachia and Marija Nemčenko and a newspaper publication by Panel.