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Serving as acts of dedication, Elizabeth Radcliffe’s weavings memorialise moments in her life, and are imbued with a considerable amount of her labour. There is a striking continuity of concern between works completed four decades ago, based upon waxed motorcycle jackets, and a more recent series that takes tennis wear as its subject. In each, a garment points to the sartorial sensibility of its wearer, and provides a set of material conditions that form the basis of Radcliffe’s enquiry. Highly attentive to the tactile finish of the fabric that she is replicating by other means, she employs a …