Decorating Dissidence’s Jade French and Suzanna Petot talk textiles and The Women’s Art Collection
with curator Naomi Polonsky…
Tag: embroidery
“Embroidery is integral to our being”: the role of Arabic tatreez in knowing who you are and where you are from
Embroidery is about making visible. It is the adornment of cloth to add meaning and value. As such, it is about identity – making a claim about who you are, and displaying that for others to see. This is both personal and political, and nowhere is this more true than in the modern Middle East.
… “Embroidery is integral to our being”: the role of Arabic tatreez in knowing who you are and where you are from
‘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
Sanity in the Seams
Sanity in the Seams: The Power of Sewing to Reaffirm a Sense of Self During Tumultuous Times, as Told Through the Needle of Nineteenth Century Seamstress, Agnes Richter.
… Sanity in the Seams
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
Crafting an Education: The Handmade Gift as Talisman for our Times
An exchange of gifts strikes up a conversation about showing care through the handmade object
… Crafting an Education: The Handmade Gift as Talisman for our Times
‘Some Strange Comfort’: the 2012 Holloway Quilt
Quilting points display the impact community projects can have
… ‘Some Strange Comfort’: the 2012 Holloway Quilt
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
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)
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