Abstract Site-specific, collectively made textiles are particularly effective producers of histories that entwine place and people. More than simply a means to an end, the process of making together foregrounds the potential of textiles to transform and be transformed beyond their materiality. The material making process mirrors another kind of making process: that of a certain kind of social integration or a sense of being and belonging somewhere, however temporary and changeable these may be. Once completed, however, these material artifacts can provoke difficult questions concerning the responsibility for their storage and display, succumbing to a fate in semi-permanent storage and eventually relinquishing their material presence to a form of visual or textual representation. Although this is not the fate of all collectively made textile works, given the widespread practice of collective textile-making, it is inevitably the fate of some. Using the example of a collectively made hooked rug project that I coordinated and participated in 15 years ago, I will explore in this article the transformed status of collectively made textile artifacts through memories of making in order to open up new understandings of these types of site-specific collective textile-making projects as a different kind of creative practice: as a narrative performance of experiences of being together.

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存储中的材料记忆：特定地点集体制造的纺织品的后果

摘要 特定地点、集体制造的纺织品是将地方和人交织在一起的历史的特别有效生产者。不仅仅是达到目的的一种手段，共同制作的过程突出了纺织品转变和超越其物质性的潜力。材料制作过程反映了另一种制作过程：某种社会融合或某处存在感和归属感的过程，无论这些过程是多么短暂和易变。然而，一旦完成，这些物质文物可能会引发关于其存储和展示责任的难题，屈服于半永久性存储的命运，并最终将其物质存在放弃为一种视觉或文本表示形式。虽然这不是所有集体制作的纺织作品的命运，鉴于集体纺织业的普遍做法，这不可避免地是某些人的命运。以我15年前协调参与的一个集体制作钩毯项目为例，在本文中，我将通过制作记忆探索集体制作纺织工艺品的转变状态，以开启对这些类型场地的新理解-特定的集体纺织品制作项目作为一种不同的创造性实践：作为在一起经历的叙事表现。