I took the year to develop my conceptual work around linen and turnarounds for the Bienniale Internationale du Lin de Portneuf, Quebec. I based my work on the Jacquard loom, employed during the Industrial Revolution in Belfast, Ireland at about the time when my maternal ancestors might well have been growing the flax for the massive linen industry in Ireland. My ancestors left Ireland in 1864 turning towards a New Land. The Jacquard loom replaced the hand weavers’ work, but introducing punch cards that help the codes to create complex patterns in the fabric, indeed they were the precursors to the first main frame computers. I created my tiles out of porcelain and hand-punched them, turning mechanization and hand-crafted work around in juxtaposition to one another. The images are of linen and the industry in Belfast at the time, all hand sewn onto linen ribbon with linen thread.