Sharing Heritage
The Meet and Mingle group aims to bring together the women of Slough in order to socialise, share, learn and have fun.
This project’s aim was to create awareness and renewed interest in the crafts of the Sindhi region of India and Pakistan, where many of the Asian population of Slough came from. The craft tradition includes hand block printing and quilt making (Ralli).
Training was given to the women in caring for textiles, oral history, public speaking and presentations in order for them to be able to record their histories and share the craft with the community.
The group held introductory talks to the community and created a quilt which was exhibited in the local area along with information and other examples. It was then donated to the Slough Museum along with six oral histories which were recorded by women trained in the crafts. A 28-page booklet about the work of Meet and Mingle and Sindhi crafts was created and circulated to local community and visitor centres.