We will Remember

Love Tokens created by artist Kate Brookes and inspired by the ‘Sweet Heart Pin Cushions’ made by injured soldiers during WW1. The tokens, made out of tissue paper, were dropped as an act of remembrance over the balcony at Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum in November 2014 as part of the Worcestershire World War One Hundred Project.

‘Sweet Heart Pin Cushions’ made by soldiers, and not women sending them to the front which was commonly thought, were an early form of occupational therapy. The soldiers were given the materials, glass beads, woven mottos and regimental badges and from their hospital beds would hand sew them, fill them with sawdust and decorate them. The Pin Cushions were posted home to their mothers, wives, girlfriends and sisters to encourage the people left behind on the Home Front not to forget them. The hearts, or Love Tokens, are an extension of this idea.

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