The calming effects of sewing can help people express and heal themselves - how absorbing your concentration in needlework relieves inner turmoil
... when I was about six years old, my mother took me to an Aladdin’s cave in the city centre. There she bought me linen cloths already stamped with floral flourishes, packets of gold-tipped needles and silver scissors with handles shaped like a bird’s wings – and she let me choose loops of embroidery threads from a carousel of colours that dazzled me ... Clare Hunter, The Guardian, 24 February 2019
Tracy Chevalier on the unsung heroine of British textiles who taught shell-shocked soldiers how to sew
... (Louisa) Pesel worked with shell-shocked soldiers during the First World War in Bradford, teaching them to sew “for the soothing value of doing something with the hands”. She was keen to give the soldiers colourful pieces to embroider, explaining that “soft, rich and gracious colours all have an obvious curative effect”. Her work with them was so successful that the scheme was copied in other towns ... Tracy Chevalier, The Telegraph (UK), 27 January 2020
Log Cabin Quilts: The Building of an American Classic
Few traditional quilt patterns both represent the American frontier and lend themselves to modern interpretations like log cabin quilts. And for a pattern many associate with Honest Abe, few have as many stories and legends attached to their history ... Barbara Brackman, Quilting Daily, 11 April 2018
Artist Embroiders Lifelike Jellyfish That “Swim” Past the Hoop
Contemporary embroiderers have revitalized an age-old craft with their exceptional hand-stitched art. And some, like Yuliya Kucherenko, are not only pushing the boundaries, but they’re breaking free of literal boundaries. Her aquatic-inspired embroidery depicts colorful jellyfish whose long tendrils drift off of the hoop ... Margherita Cole, Modern Met, 6 February 2020
Mystery of why Bayeux Tapestry is so long and thin finally solved
... after a British professor discovered it fits perfectly in a lost area of Bayeux Cathedral. Christopher Norton, Professor of Art History at the University of York, found the embroidered cloth was designed to be hung along the north, south and west sides of the nave of Bayeux Cathedral, between the west wall and choir screen ... Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph (UK), 23/10/2019
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