Innehållsförteckning för July - August 2022 från Embroidery

The fantastic In Stiches quilt pattern by the RBD Designers is a free pattern download at https://www.rileyblakedesigns.com/free-quilt-patterns Keep calm and stitch on with Stitchy Birds by Teresa Kogut. Beautiful cross-stitching birds and their tools are just the beginning of this folk-art collection. Blue, butterscotch, green, midnight, and parchment make an oh-sew gorgeous palette for the florals, embroidery hoops, stitches and more. You’ll stitch to your heart’s content with this beautiful collection. Follow us for tutorials on YouTube | www.rileyblakedesigns.com ©2022 Christensen Wholesale™ All Rights Reserved…

Milliner Philip Treacy has been announced as one of the judges of the annual Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery, established in 2000 to promote the fine art of embroidery. Now a global competition with entries from over 40 different countries, the competition provides aspiring embroidery students and designers with an opportunity to showcase their talents. Treacy’s exquisite handcrafted sculptural headwear highlights the fantastical imagination of this quietly spoken Irishman who, for more than 30 years has created couture hats that draw admiration and surprise in equal measure. Treacy has worked with the greatest designers of our age and in 2007 was awarded an honorary OBE. His fellow judges are: artist Cornelia Parker; Esme Young of The Great British Sewing Bee; Anthea Godfrey, artistic director of the Embroiderers’ Guild; textile…

AN UNBROKEN THREAD: CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF NEEDLEWORK Susan Kay-Williams Published to coincide with the Royal School of Needlework’s 150th anniversary, this title tells the story of the RSN from its founding in 1872 to the current day. Written by the CEO, Dr Susan Kay-Williams, it highlights key people, royal and other special commissions, the changing fortunes of the school as fashions waxed and waned and the approach to teaching hand-embroidery. It also brings attention to the role and position of the RSN, both historically and today, associating with everyone from society ladies and theatre impresarios in the late 19th century, to working with fashion designers Patrick Grant, Nicholas Oakwell and Alexander McQueen. ACC Art Books, £35 JAPANESE MOTIFS IN STUMPWORK & GOLDWORK Jane Nicholas Jane…

DAVID MORRISH CALLS HIMSELF a ‘disruptive designer’. A man in the traditionally female world of embroidery, he is out to shatter stereotypes, from the tattoos on his forearms to his prize-winning art. As a fashion academic at Sheffield Hallam University (winning two awards as an educator), and having finished his own MA in fashion and textiles in 2020 (with a First, distinction), he is at the ‘cutting edge’. A former Embroiderers’ Guild scholar, he has twice won the Hand & Lock Prize’s Wilcom Digital Embroiderer of the Year. His 2019 winning entry was a 5ft deconstructed denim jacket suspended in a weaving loom-inspired frame. Embroidered with a metaphorical owl clutching a rat in its talons, the design represented the wealthy Victorian cloth mill owner bringing about the end of the…

Susan Doherty used her timber rainforest home and shed as her studio, crafting dressed small dolls out of timeworn, perhaps better described as timeravaged, fabrics and fascinating, gleefully-alighted-on oddments, each with their imagined histories, under the hypnotic gaze of an Amethystine python. ‘A python used to live in the ceiling,” she laughs, “I saw him go into a little hole once and wanted to grab him by the tail but realised that would be a bit silly.’ To understand Susan’s unusual practice, you need to familiarise yourself with the background of this Australian native and especially the surrounding geography. But there’s probably no starker indication that this artist’s influences are vastly different to our 9-to-5-and-Ikea-at-the-weekend existence than sharing her home with this wild fauna. Susan lived in the mountainous rainforest…

“From the Seychelles to Santorini, the Caribbean to Capri or places closer to home, islands have the potential to transport us to our own personal paradise…Show us your ‘glimpses of the islands’…” This was the evocative challenge set by the Embroidery Competition 2022 in association with Madeira, sponsored by Husqvarna and Embroidery magazine. The competition was judged at the Fashion and Embroidery Show at the NEC, Birmingham, on 17 March and organised by ICHF Events. The standard of entries was extremely good but one that caught both our attention and that of the visiting public was Amanda Stinton’s Glimpses of Lindisfarne. While the Madeira Rose Bowl for overall winner is coveted, Amanda claimed the ‘people’s vote’, winning hearts and minds and a subscription to Embroidery magazine. ‘It was lovely when…

WELCOME to my first issue as editor of Embroidery magazine. It is a privilege to take the editor’s chair of this well-respected journal. I would love to get to know you, so do please email me with your news and views. This is your magazine: it needs to reflect the diversity of its readership and the heterogeneity of textile art. So, who am I? For 14 years I was a county magazine editor. Our HQ was in a farm barn where in winter we tried to stop the mice from eating the office chocolate supply, and in summer, staff helped run our June jazz festival. The magazine even had its own racehorse. I studied art and English at the University College of Wales. My favourite spare-time activities involve making of…

1 SCULPTURAL TEXTILES Explore the possibilities of working with lightweight wire to create small-scale bird and flower sculptures with Priscilla Edwards. Priscilla will share ways to embellish your bird or flower using layers of fabric and wax, before adding touches of paper, paint, buttons, beads and hand-stitching. 10 September 10.30am-3.30pm £55 shopbeyondmeasure.co.uk 2 SENTIMENTAL SKETCHBOOKS Paper pioneer Jennifer Collier creates exquisite sculptures from vintage recycled materials and stitch. She will show how to bind cartridge paper, watercolour paper and handmade papers alongside pages that have emotional value. 17-18 September 10am-4pm £150 bethmorrisworkshops.co.uk 3 SUMMER SCHOOL Deborah Campbell teaches collagraph over a week-long summer school. Get inspired to make plates using wallpaper, tapes, fabrics, glue, modelling paste and carborundum. August 8-12 10am-4pm £300 deborahcampbell.co.uk 4 COLLAGRAPH PRINTMAKING Sue Brown is the…

CECILIA CHARLTON IS AN AMERICAN textile artist currently residing in London, who uses the regimented stitches of the bargello technique to tell both personal and universal stories. She works intuitively, the geometrics of the technique taking her to abstraction. Countering this abstraction are the titles of her works, often based in her personal life. Responding to a £10,000 commission from the biennial Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open, which gives exceptional artists the opportunity to develop their ideas, Cecilia has produced the triptych Eternal myth and the poetry of the cosmos [fate, future, suture] (2021). In this work, Cecilia invites the viewer to ponder: does the thread of life bind us to our fate? And also to think more deeply on humankind’s place in the cosmos. At JerwoodArts.org, Cecilia lists Pale…

Holly Searle, aka The Subversive Stitcher, is a straight-talker. In fact, both she and her alterego tell it like it is, one through writing and the other through stitch. Though referring to the existence of this second self as vaguely duplicitous, Searle evidently revels in exercising its anonymous, unexpurgated voice. ‘I have a regular domestic life like everyone else but when I see something that makes me angry I feel compelled to do something so I go away and make something.’ This urge to make something is deeply entrenched in Searle’s family narrative. ‘My nan was a seamstress and from that generation of women who made their own clothes. She was a great knitter and she could crochet. She would always send me something for my birthday. My mum was…

On show AYLESBURY Sew New! Recent additions to the Embroiderers’ Guild Collection, Bucks Co Museum, Church Street HP20 2QP. discoverbucksmuseum.org BELFAST La Belle Epoque Fashions of the 1870s-1910s until 4 September. Ulster Museum Botanic Gardens BT9 5AB. nmni.com BIRMINGHAM Haffendi Anuar: Rumah Berkaki (Legged House) until 29 August. Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square B1 2HS. ikon-gallery.org BOURNEMOUTH Collecting the World: Quay Crafts 28 June-16 September. Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, East Cliff Promenade, BH1 3AA. russellcotes.com BOVEY TRACEY Summer Show 2022 16 July-8 October. MAKE Southwest, Riverside Mill, Devon TQ13 9AF. crafts.org.uk BRIGHTON The Regency Wardrobe: Stephanie Smart until 11 September. The Royal Pavilion, East Sussex BN1 1EE. brightonmuseums.org.uk BURY ST EDMONDS ThreadsThrough Creation: Jacqui Parkinson 27 July-3 September. St Edmondsbury Cathedral, Suffolk IP33 1LF. stedscathedral.org CHERTSEY Blooming Marvellous: 1700-2000s…

GIO SWABY IS THE FRESH young Bahamian multimedia artist whose name is on everyone’s lips right now. Fresh Up at the Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida is her debut solo show featuring more than 40 works created as ‘love letters to black women’. Growing up surrounded by the threads and fabrics of her seamstress mother, Swaby chooses to work in mediums traditionally associated with domesticity to imbue her work with familiarity, labour and care. She upends tradition with a sense of monumentality in the life-size series Pretty Pretty. The subjects are intricately rendered in sewn thread which is visible by showing the reverse of the canvas, its knots and loose threads. In doing so, Swaby embraces and elevates the imperfections. Swaby illustrates the women’s personal style in detailed…