Through an exploration of contemporary and traditional textile practices and personal investigations into material studies such as embroidery, cyanotypes, and sewing Common Threads seeks to unravel the thread of the complex history and future of textile practices as expressions of identity. This work considers textiles as storytelling, the visualization of relationships through textiles, and how identity and community are established and communicated through intergenerational textile practices. The work focuses on the themes of textiles as women’s work, textiles as a form of catharsis, the role of textiles in preserving cultural identity, and textiles as language.