by Cathy Jack Coupland | Aug 10, 2021 | Resources
Kay Staniland is an English author and embroiderer, with five other titles to her name. This small book, published by British Museum Press, London, in 1991 is a well-researched introduction into the somewhat hazy and indefinite world of medieval embroiderers –...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jul 28, 2021 | Podcast Episodes
But embroidery needed the invention of some very basic tools before that first stitch could be taken and that began a long, long time ago. With Stitch Safari, I’m trying to chronicle embroidery’s beginnings as well as its relationship with society and...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jul 22, 2021 | Resources
Author Clare Hunter was a finalist for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, with a story published in its 2017 Annual, a recipient of a Creative Scotland Award in 2016 and winner of the Saltire First Book Award for Threads of Life. Clare is also a sewer, banner...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jul 14, 2021 | Resources
English Medieval Embroidery, Opus Anglicanum was published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, to accompany a major exhibition held in 2017. Edited by Clare Browne, Curator of European Textiles, pre-1800, V&A London, Glynn Davies, Curator of...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jul 7, 2021 | Resources
First and foremost, Carola Hicks was a British art historian, described by Angela Thirlwell as a ‘glamorous academic and a serious populariser of art who swept the dust off old masterpieces, explained their cultural contexts, and infused them with a life for a...
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