Publisher's Synopsis
As part of the book's research, a collection of fabric monochromes woven by weavers from all 28 member states of the EU in the base colour of the flag was compiled. These collated monochromes as such become a map themselves of the socio-economic shift within EU member communities, an embodiment of the disappearing textile industries of Europe. Conversely, the blue of these monochromes can be viewed as a physical representation of the EU's modernist tradition; its purity laws, its longing for transcendence and an optimistic belief in utopian potential.