Threads the delicate life of john craske this title was the winner of the east anglian book of the year 2015 john craske a norfok fisherman was born in 1881 and in 1917 when he had just turned thirty six he fell seriously ill for the rest of his life he kept moving in and out of what was described as a stuporous state in 1923 he started making paintings of the sea and boats and the coastline seen from the sea and later when he was too ill to stand and paint he turned to embroidery w