• Common Threads Press

  • Independent publisher putting radical histories of craft and making on your bookshelf.
  • 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.
  • NEW: Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt Zine

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

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

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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

  • A Quilted Alphabet
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    Bailey Raha
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  • The Threads of Us
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  • Common Threads Patch by Addie Best Studio
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    Addie Best Studio
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  • Common Threads Press Tote Bag
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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'.

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NEW! Rights Not Charity: Protest Banners and Disability Activism

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