White hat embroidered with the inscription ‘Sew to Say’. Worn by Thalia Campbell on the 'Peace Train' from Helsinki to Beijing for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (4-15 September 1995). The train was organised by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Over 200 women from 42 countries made the three-week journey (7-29 August 1995). Thalia Campbell was a member of the Women for Life on Earth group who established the peace camp at Greenham Common in September 1981.
Made from cotton twill fabric. Constructed from a single layer circular crown, one double-layer strip to make up the sides and a two-part brim made up of double-layer with felted interlining. Inner seam between brim and sides of hat covered with white cotton bias tape. Two brass eyelet air holes lacquered in white. All machine-stitched using white cotton thread (Z-twist). Inscription hand-embroidered in chain stitch using dark blue, pale blue and green cotton thread.
Rhif yr Eitem
F2019.20.20
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Campbell, Thalia
Association Type: Wear
Date: 1995
Associated Person/Body: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Association Type:
Date: 1995
Creu/Cynhyrchu
Thalia Delphine Campbell (née Childs) was born in Torquay in 1937. Her father had a tailor's shop on the seafront. Influenced by her grandmother who had witnessed the Suffragettes clashing with the police in early 20th century London, Thalia became politically aware from a young age. She completed a two year teacher-training course at Matlock College, Derbyshire, and became a primary school teacher. In 1959, she met her husband, Ian Campbell. They had four children in the 1960s. The family moved to Wales in the late 1960s. Between 1973-6, Thalia studied for an art degree at Aberystwyth, and eventually became an extra-mural lecturer for the college. In 1981, she was one of the founders of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, and became well-known for making banners to display on the military base's perimeter fence.
Rôl: Embroiderer
Cyfnod: 1995
Derbyniad
Donation, 12/3/2019
Mesuriadau
Uchder
(cm): 15
diameter
(cm): 25
Deunydd
Cotton (fabric)
Brass
