A Labour
of Love
This project explores the role of women’s unseen labor in the domestic setting through the lens of textiles. Using embroidery and traditional craft, I examine how women have historically used domestic objects and routines to protest, to confide, to adorn, to say things they often feel they cannot say out loud. The dining table—ritualistic and shared, yet prepared by one—becomes a powerful metaphor for the unseen labor of women. My work interrogates the difference between expected labor and a labor of love, questioning how we value care, time, and emotional work.