1. Dr Sonja Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in Textiles at the University of Manchester. Her research interests focus on textile semantics and communication, crossing the disciplines of printed textile design, semiotics, and narratology. She exhibits nationally and internationally, with work recently selected for the exhibition Craft and Conflict (UK, September 2014), the Arts and Humanities Research Council Image Gallery (June 2014), and the Scythia International Biennial of Textile Art (Ukraine, June 2014).