A Single Thread (2019)

Violet Speedwell joins the women embroidering kneelers for Winchester Cathedral and has to become useful through learning. Paid work, money worries and family obligations compete with her time among the broderers. The gradual competence is the reward: she acquires a practice and a place in a community, with no need for a spectacular public triumph. It is a particularly good account of what being allowed to make something can change in an ordinary working week.