At the Lincolnshire Archives, we found information about the women during the war and how they worked in the factories making linen for the aeroplane wings. This was because it was a light material and able to stretch to around the wings perfectly in order for the planes to fly. As a group we wanted to re-create the linen wings by using sewing machines and materials. At first we wanted to make an aeroplane out of material then add the wings on to it as it covered our performance space but unfortunately this was impossible because of the time scale we had. But, we collected unwanted clothing and bits of material and started making our wings.
As we working making them, we noticed that the material looks like fields of patchwork and linking this back in with the aeroplanes it is like a bird’s eye view on when the pilots looked down as they were flying over Lincoln.
