Needlebound Volume. 2

Needlebound is an annual publication that archives and amplifies the online fiber arts community through print. Founded by Hayley Mortin (Dazy Chains) in 2024, it exists as a deliberate counter-space to algorithmic curation as a a place where fiber artists control their own narratives, set their own terms, and appear in full complexity rather than flattened into content.

Needlebound Volume 2 arrives in a moment of digital fragility, asking what remains when online platforms disappear. As the scaffolding of social media begins to splinter (shadow bans, blackouts, algorithmic drift) fibre artists are left to consider what kinds of knowledge can survive the collapse.

This issue looks to textiles as a medium of continuity: one that holds memory, resists erasure, and builds structures for community outside of algorithmic systems. It gathers essays, interviews, and artwork that explore how craft sustains meaning across time, and what forms of knowledge remain legible when the platforms that once held them begin to dissolve.

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By Hayley Mortin; May 2025; 152.4x228.6mm; 253 pages