Julia Mallory shares her series of capes, created to ‘tell stories about ‘tell stories about Black folks’ relationship to labor, leisure, and loss’…
… My Cape is Hanging Somewhere in a Museum
Category: needlework
‘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
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)
Spotlight: Black Girl Knit Club
Find out more about Sicgmone Kludje & Vea Koranteng’s knitting club…
… Spotlight: Black Girl Knit Club
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
On the Fence: Crafting Resistance at Greenham Common
Exploring the role craft played at the The Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
… On the Fence: Crafting Resistance at Greenham Common
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
‘Some Strange Comfort’: the 2012 Holloway Quilt
Quilting points display the impact community projects can have
… ‘Some Strange Comfort’: the 2012 Holloway Quilt
Practice-based: Aninda Varma
Tussar, Chanderi, Kanjeevaram, Bandini, Patola – these are names I would often hear around me while growing up in India, and I remember vividly the accompanied excitement that these words would conjure, and the all-consuming beauty and vibrancy that would follow.
… Practice-based: Aninda Varma
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.
Book Review: handiwork’s Crafting of the New Global Elegy
Amy E. Elkins reviews handiwork by Sara Baume
… Book Review: handiwork’s Crafting of the New Global Elegy
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
‘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
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)
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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