Patterns, behaviours, modes of existing and of seeing the world are often acquired from the family that surrounds us – a way of being that links us to the past, generating identity and providing a cultural barrier of distinction. However, new environments can alter these distinctions, where borders fragment, morph and shift, creating a redefined space. Inherited Borders translates to wire a traditional Norwegian embroidery technique called Hardanger. It reveals how defensiveness can be intertwined with invitation and allure, and heritage maintained through adaptation. Additionally, the work demonstrates the reality of cultural borders – barriers that can be both simultaneously permeable and impermeable, rigid and malleable.