It’s the first of July. I have been travelling and out of Porto and out of action for the whole of June. So after a great 6 month planning session with Donna Wanderlust…. I am starting a ‘3o min ever day / start a timer / make a thing (any thing) /...
This will be a visual feast of kantha embroidery research and found imagery from around the web and the world. I was doing a little kantha embroidery – to clarify, kantha can just mean running stitch, but I think of it when it is dense and continuous –...
The photographer Kati Horna took beautiful and surreal images. When she was just 25 years old, she was commissioned to capture photographs of the Spanish Civil War (1937). Her view and depiction of what was happening within communities at the time of the war are...
Experiencing first hand this morning the power of stitching to bring people together. A lovely zoom with East London Textile Arts and – a project re-imaginging the work of Madge Gill. An open brief to stitch or explore her work in some way. Madge worked in such a way...
