Last order date for 2023 dispatch is 17 December. Orders placed after this will be dispatched on 3 January 2024.

  • Common Threads Press

  • Independent publisher putting radical histories of craft and making on your bookshelf.
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  • NEW: Rights Not Charity: Protest Banners and Disability Activism

  • Curator Gill Crawshaw explores the history of protest banners and political artwork in disabled people’s rights movements.
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  • NEW: Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt Zine

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Common Threads Press

Independent publisher putting radical histories of craft and making on your bookshelf. Shop

NEW: Rights Not Charity: Protest Banners and Disability Activism

Curator Gill Crawshaw explores the history of protest banners and political artwork in disabled people’s rights movements. SHOP

NEW: Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt Zine

Shop our new publication about the Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt Shop

NEW: Common Threads Patch by Addie Best Studio

We're so excited to share these limited edition, handmade patches that have been designed and made by Addie Best Studio, exclusively for Common Threads Press!

With just 100 available, this hand-printed and hand-carved artwork was designed to reflect all things Common Threads: reading and crafting. Addie has also made the patches 5x5 inches to make it easy for all the quilters out there to patchwork with!

As Addie Best's only UK stockist, don't miss out on this unique chance to get hold of Addie's beautiful, handmade art. 

Approx 5x5 inches, linen, limited edition of 100

£10 each, or three for £25 (save £5)

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Fundraising

We've raised £2979 for charities and community groups from 2021–2023 through our publications, prints and collaborations!

£1772 for the Navajo Quilt Project ~ £606 for The Outside Project ~ £468 for the Black Art Library ~ £133 for Leeway Domestic Abuse Services ~ £220 for Norwich Trans Pride

Christmas Gift Guide

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  • Addie Best Studio
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Common Threads Press T-Shirt

Support the work of Common Threads Press by purchasing one of our exclusive, limited-edition t-shirts through Everpress. This t-shirt features an illustration by Shiori Osakata, created specially for Common Threads Press with our ethos and publications in mind.

£25

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Testimonials

I am such a huge fan of Common Threads Press, who offer a vibrant and vital platform to craft stories that have often been neglected from wider histories. Beautifully produced and exacting in research, these publications show that as with everything, the history of craft is deeply political.

Amber Butchart, curator, writer and history consultant for BBC One's Great British Sewing Bee.

Diasporic Threads platforms a stunning selection of works by contemporary Black women textile artists and is rich in critical insight and historical context.

Ferren Gipson, author of Women's Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Arts and The Ultimate Art Museum.

Common Threads Press publications are brilliant: accessible, informative, powerful.

They bring to the fore the universal human stories told by textiles and their making, underscoring the intimate and political power of fabric.

Rachel Dedman, Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East at the V&A, curator of 'Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery'.

Back in stock!

We're delighted to announce we've acquired Bailey Raha's 'A Quilted Alphabet'. Now back in stock, republished by Common Threads Press, 'A Quilted Alphabet' presents an alphabetical collection of quilt blocks, some common, some less so. 

A6 in size, spanning from A to Z, this zine would be a lovely gift for quilt lovers or crafty friends.

£6, available now

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NEW! Rights Not Charity: Protest Banners and Disability Activism

Textiles have long been part of the fabric of disabled people’s lives and history. In common with banners of the women’s suffrage movement and trade unions, disabled activists have embraced banners as a form of protest and resistance, communicating messages about identity, pride, unity and justice. Rights Not Charity tells the stories of these banners.

Curator Gill Crawshaw explores this history through the protest banners and political artwork of disabled people’s rights movements, taking in political responses to charity, accessibility, and government cuts, among other causes.

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