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LEEK TEXTILE WEEK

League of Artisans and OUTSIDE have commissioned three major artists to bring to life oral histories from Leek’s textile past.

Venues: Walls across Leek - an online and printed map of paste-up sites will be published in advance of Leek Textile Week.

Open: 23-29 September 2024, day and night

FREE

If walls could talk, what stories would they tell about Leek’s diverse industrial heritage and the lives of local people? If walls could talk, they would share their many stories, revealing the layers of history contained within. Deborah Bowness will take wallpaper onto the streets, creating a trail of site specific outdoor paste-ups covering 300 metres of wall space. Her work will be informed by oral histories gathered from Leek’s textile workers, bringing to life heritage stories of the mills.