Hawick film festival celebrates region's textile history
The film, called On Weaving, is the work of 2012 Turner Prize nominee, Luke Fowler and 2014 Max Mara prize winner, Corin Sworn.It features the current owners of the Kleins former home, talking about them and the story of the textile industry in the Borders.Mr Pattinson said he was delighted to have the film as part of this year's festival."The film is a rich portrait of the Klein home as well as of active sites of textiles production in the Scottish Borders," he said."Its use of analogue film to capture these places in all their colour and texture provides a lasting snapshot of our region's architectural and industrial heritage."
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