100 Years Blanket

2026

Textile Installation
Agar-based biotextile, Dried food waste, Cotton, LCD Screens

Presented at Central Saint Martins for the Changing Stories Festival


Before the age of steam engines or even agriculture, textiles catalysed the formation of trade, industry and society. In every age, textiles have spurred innovation, inspiring the computer and influencing the silk road. Yet, it is complicated by exploited labour and colonial histories. 

100 Years Blanket explores the relationships and dynamics of the textile world through bio-textiles made with household waste. The screens display a live feed of the stock flows of a publicly traded elite sportswear company, visualising the invisible capital flows that power textile innovation. Weaving together human history through domestic imagery of the home and industrial visualisation of capital flows, the blanket presents textiles as an invisible technology that serves us both economically and emotionally. In an era of cutting edge research, it questions who these modern textile discoveries serve to benefit and invites us to consider why and how we innovate.