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Size (H x W cm) approx: 70 x 45
Not for sale E: lesliefox52@gmail.com Materials: Wool and cotton What the artist says: Built on Coal narrates the Northeast's historic journey from the labour below the Earth's surface through the heat and toil of the iron smelting above to the grimy-windowed factories which generated the wealth of industrial Britain in the late 19th Century. Built on a foundation of coal and sustained by the sweat, poverty and misery of those whose smoke-filled lungs powered the wheels of progress. |
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Fabric of the North is at Kirkleatham Museum, Redcar, Teesside TS10 5NW, from 18 May '21 to January '22. Opening hours are 10:00 - 17:00, Tuesday to Sunday. Contact: fabricofthenorth@icloud.com.
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