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Embroidered Faces and Figures
Why not give faces and figures a go? These artists did and look where they are now.
Embroidered Aerial Views
How often do embroiderers think of perspective? Well, in the case of the following embroidery artists, the answer would have to be, often, because they take their work to an aerial perspective depicting embroidered scenes one does not often think about or get to see....
Beetles, Butterflies and Insects in Embroidery
There's a very funny insect that you do not often spy, And it isn't quite a spider, and it isn't quite a fly; It is something like a beetle, and a little like a bee, But nothing like a wooly grub that climbs upon a tree. Its name is quite a hard one, but you'll learn...
Embroidered Christmas Treasures
Stitch Safari listeners, why not share your Christmas stitching projects on the Stitch Safari Facebook page?
Australian Textile Artist Annemieke Mein
This episode pays tribute to an embroidery artist who, from a very young age, was devoted to capturing and recording the beauty and complexity of nature, learning to note intricate details that would later lay a foundation for her work in textiles. This Dutch-born...
Machine Embroidery – Book Reviews
This is a follow-up to the last episode of the Stitch Safari Podcast, Masters of Our Machines, and focuses on books offering inspiration, technique, and thoughts on the artistry of machine embroidery today. In the vast sea that makes up the book world which are the...
Masters of our Machines
'If I can draw it, I can stitch it' is my mantra. I'm talking about using a sewing machine as a mark-making, art and design tool to create lines, shapes, and patterns using a needle and thread, often with the feed dogs disengaged, forming personal narratives and...
Master Embroiderers: Alice Kettle and Salley Mavor
In this episode of Stitch Safari, I want to talk about two amazing, exciting and innovative embroiderers. They were chosen because of how differently they work, highlighting the diversity embroidery offers. But it doesn't stop there. They live on either side of the...
Steampunk and Textile Art
This is the perfect setting for a new body of work – think past, present and future – all with a touch of mystery, adventure and romance.
Books Using Stitch, Textile or Fibre Imagery
You all know my passion for books and videos, well one genre I've completely overlooked is the style of book that uses embroidery, textiles and fibre as the imagery to help tell the story. This caught my attention while researching another topic, so I thought I'd...
Videos Recreating Costume and Embroidery
So if you’re looking for something interesting to watch in the evenings, search out some of the videos offering this type of content.
Stitch and Textiles in Biennale Art – Two Artists
Join me in this fascinating episode of Stitch Safari as I analyse the use of textiles and embroidery in two specific artworks to communicate and record huge injustices in artworks featured in Biennales.
Collaborative Embroidery Projects
It’s the power of a simple needle and thread to connect and join.
Book Reviews From My Library #1
Books are essential for my peace of mind, so I have a variety in my library covering technique, inspiration, history and those I simply love to look at. I've chosen three books published at different times - 1980, 1994, and 2013 giving scope to all those ideas just...
Critiquing Your Art
Why not promote and hone the skills you need to self-critique and in doing so, become a more complete and well-rounded artist in the process?
What Do You Want From A Workshop?
In this episode of the Stitch Safari Podcast, I want to make people think and have an understanding of what our expectations are for the workshops we book into. Is it to take work in a particular direction, or is it to have fun, relax and enjoy creating with other...
The Hidden Gems Behind Success
To move forward with our work we need to exercise all the areas of artistic life that many don’t think about and even more, don’t or won’t acknowledge. But these reliable, dependable, and all-so-necessary areas are there, because if we don’t work with them, we...
Why Not Start A Blog?
Can I encourage embroidery and textile artists to at least think about starting a blog? Let’s see. The worlds of embroidery and textiles must be two of the most exotic, artistic, expressive and creative genres known to man - imagine all that amazing history, colour,...
Embroidery and Textile Artist’s Websites
A website can become an extension of the artist and creator.
Embroidery onto Paper and Metal
The idea of using either paper or metal in embroidery work is to add to the offering of infinite creative options available to the modern embroiderer. Metal thread embroidery has a close attachment to the symbolic significance of gold, representing the magical power...
Constance Howard – The Influencer With Green Hair
Constance Howard, the British embroiderer, often best remembered for her green hair, had a colossal influence on contemporary embroidery at a time when it was deemed to be a comparatively minor craft, setting a pathway that's probably helped lead to the expansion of...
Book Review: The Pocket
Who would think a simple, commonplace pocket could be the holder of such a scope of fascinating research? Obviously, the authors, Barbara Burman - an independent scholar, and Ariane Fennetaux - associate professor of eighteenth-century history at Université de Paris,...
Tie-On Pockets – A Hidden World
Tie-on pockets made use of recycled fabrics, were used as teaching tools, and were transmitters of design while reinforcing the familial and friendship networks between women, connecting women’s inner and outer worlds – a world of politics and protest to that of a humble worker making a living.
Maison Lesage
Welcome to the stunningly beautiful, elegantly innovative, seductively alluring world of French Haute Couture and the dynastic family of Lesage. The House of Lesage became the doyen of French Haute Couture embroidery collaborating with the world's elite designers...
Book Review: Maison Lesage Haute Couture Embroidery
Maison Lesage is a dynastic house of haute couture embroidery that worked with the who's who of the fashion industry - Vionnet, Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, and Chanel. This book draws the link from the very inception of Maison Lesage...
Book Review: The Hunt of the Unicorn
Though not embroidery, the magnificently woven medieval tapestries making up the set known as The Unicorn Tapestries, provide a wonderful vehicle for this richly imaginative work of fiction. No one knows for whom the Tapestries were made or what they mean or...
Book Review: The Girl Who Wrote In Silk
Imagine finding an intricately embroidered sleeve while exploring a relative's deceased estate. Inara Erickson unearths this long-forgotten treasure, knowing that she has found something quite special and unique. With no knowledge of embroidery, Inara looks for help...
Book Review: The Quick and the Thread
A cozy mystery full of red herrings, misdirection, and intrigue set in a newly opened embroidery store aptly named The Seven-Year Stitch, where the heroine teaches embroidery and solves the mystery of the body in the storeroom.
Book Review: Trace: The Embroidered Art of Michele Carragher
What this book shows is an acute awareness and perception for storytelling in stitch. This is concept embroidery at its very best.
Mexican Otomi Embroidery
This is one time where embroidery defines the textile – not the cloth, not the weave, and not the dyes used, but the actual process of hand stitching the brightly coloured designs into complex and lively textiles that have become a major source of fascination and income.