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Category: embroidery

FeaturedArticle embroidery issue thirteen needlework Practice Based

‘La trato como reina [I treat her like a queen]’, Daniela Lara-Espinoza

The messages and images embroidered in these aprons are associated with the urgent need to make the high levels of gender-based violence visible and question and contest our society’s patriarchal structure and severe social inequalities.

… ‘La trato como reina [I treat her like a queen]’, Daniela Lara-Espinoza
FeaturedArticle embroidery issue eleven needlework Practice Based textiles

Emily Grimble, C19 Text Talk (2020)

‘C19 Text Talk’ is a hand-embroidered diary, comprised of 50 text works, made over a period of 100 days since the enforcement of the UK lockdown on the 23rd March 2020.

… Emily Grimble, C19 Text Talk (2020)
FeaturedArticle embroidery issue eleven needlework Spotlight textiles

Spotlight: Black Girl Knit Club

Find out more about Sicgmone Kludje & Vea Koranteng’s knitting club…

… Spotlight: Black Girl Knit Club
Featuredembroidery issue eleven needlework Spotlight textiles

Spotlight: Veiled Voices 2020

Veiled Voices 2020 is an inclusive community embroidery project, which invites women across the UK to come together and explore perceptions of Hijab wearing in Britain, with the aim of creating understanding and friendship.

… Spotlight: Veiled Voices 2020
FeaturedArticle embroidery Interview issue eleven needlework textiles

Sewing Social Histories with Stitches in Time

Stitches in Time began as an experiment to see if sewing could start conversations between strangers – Lottie Whalen interviewed the team to find out more…

… Sewing Social Histories with Stitches in Time
FeaturedArticle embroidery issue ten needlework

‘Some Strange Comfort’: the 2012 Holloway Quilt

Quilting points display the impact community projects can have

… ‘Some Strange Comfort’: the 2012 Holloway Quilt
FeaturedArticle embroidery Interview issue ten needlework Practice Based

An interview with Rachelle Romeo

North London based artist and activist Rachelle Romeo’s work caught our eye with her powerful and poetic use of embroidery.

… An interview with Rachelle Romeo
FeaturedArticle embroidery issue ten needlework Review

handiwork’s Crafting of the New Global Elegy

Amy E. Elkins reviews handiwork by Sara Baume

… handiwork’s Crafting of the New Global Elegy
FeaturedArticle embroidery issue ten needlework textiles

Stitching Solidarity: Janie Terrero and the Political Power of the Needle

Janie Terrero’s decision to declare her identity at the centre of her work is a gesture of defiance towards the Prison’s attempt to anonymise inmates in an effort to prevent solidarity from forming.

… Stitching Solidarity: Janie Terrero and the Political Power of the Needle
FeaturedArticle embroidery issue ten needlework

‘Always in the Middle’: Unpicking the Fabric of Domesticity with Mary Sibande

Explore Sibande’s alter-ego, the domestic servant Sophie Ntombikayise, who emanates and is entangled by sprawling, supernatural roots of purple fabric…

… ‘Always in the Middle’: Unpicking the Fabric of Domesticity with Mary Sibande
FeaturedArticle embroidery issue ten needlework

In the (Spider’s) Web (on Berta López)

After stumbling on an exhibition in Madrid, Roberta Quance discovers the affective resonance of crochet and the legacies of lacemaking…

… In the (Spider’s) Web (on Berta López)
FeaturedArticle embroidery issue ten needlework

Madge Gill: Creativity with No Boundaries

How the mysterious and enigmatic artist Madge Gill (1882-1961) defied all expectations of being a working class woman in the early 20th century.

… Madge Gill: Creativity with No Boundaries

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