 Hello, and welcome to the Betsy B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives. My name is Allison McKittrick, and I'm the Outreach Librarian for Special Collections. And today we are going to be looking at a very unique artist book from our Rare Books collection. The title of this book is Notions. It was created in 2014 by 20 different artists from the Virginia Arts of the Book Center. And it is about factory girls, fatal fires, and the common threads that bind us all. This artist book takes the form of a sewing box full of sewing notions. These notions, or recreated objects and paper and fiber ephemera by the artists, tell a multi-generational story about girls and women working in garment factories and the clothing industry. They also express the artist's notions about women's changing roles at home and at work, the growing distance between consumers and producers, and the value of a human life. The story begins with Rosie, a seamstress who died in 1911 in the New York City Triangle Shirt Waste Factory fire. That fire killed 146 young, mostly women immigrants because of the extremely unsafe working conditions of the factory. After Rosie's death, the box is handed down through the family and a century later, in 2012 it belongs to Rosie's great-grand-niece Katja, who is a designer of low-cost clothing. When the factory that is set to produce her designs, the Tazreen Fashions Factory in Bangladesh has a fire of its own that kills 112 workers. Katja is forced to reckon with her family's tragic history and the continuing exploitation of factory workers. As with all of the best artist's books, this piece is an immersive experience, it allows the reader to hold the tangible details of this story, and it reminds us of the sacrifices of women factory workers throughout history. The artists of this book urge us to be mindful of, dignify, and protect the lives of those who labor to produce the clothes we wear.