Clare Hunter has been a banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator for over twenty years and established the community enterprise NeedleWorks in Glasgow. Her first book, Threads of Life, won the Saltire First Book Award, was a Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month and a Radio 4 Book of the Week.
Select praise for THREADS OF LIFE: An astonishing feat * Sunday Times * Triumphant * Mail on Sunday * An inspiring and moving sideways look at history * Sunday Express * Astonishing . . . so well written * Times Literary Supplement * A beautifully considered book . . .Clare Hunter has managed to mix the personal with the political with moving results' -- Tracy Chevalier