Some serious treats in these links:
Art Quilt Australia 2023: award winners and online galleryArt Quilt Australia 2023 seeks to promote excellence and originality in contemporary art quilts in Australia with an added emphasis on quilts made of wool. Works were selected on the basis of originality, composition, content and execution by a jury of acknowledged experts: Dr Anne Farren, Beth Miller and Dr Moira G. Simpson. OzQuilt Network, 11 August 2023
Festival of Quilts, Birmingham UK 3 - 6 August 2023
This link will take you to the 2023 Competition Gallery. Explore the website for other 202# galleries.
The Festival of Quilts was launched in 2003 in partnership with The Quilters’ Guild as a hub for people from all over the world to come together and share their passion for quilting.
20 years on and it is now the biggest quilting show in Europe with over 22,000 quilting fanatics expected to attend this year. It is also home to the largest open quilt competition in the world, has the largest programme of workshops and talks offered anywhere in Europe and hosts some of the leading quilt artists from around the globe
Victorian Quilters Showcase 2023
Award winners gallery.
9 Fascinating Needlework Tapestries like the Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry has fascinated needleworkers and historians alike for centuries. Unlike most tapestries, which are woven, the Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered in stem stitch and couching, or Bayeux Stitch. Over the years, EGA has offered educational opportunities exploring the Bayeux Tapestry, such as our recent virtual lecture with Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer (learn more here). The history of the making and preservation of the Bayeux Tapestry, as well as the history it captures in its threads, tell a fascinating story about crafting as a means of storytelling and record keeping.
But the Bayeux Tapestry isn’t the only artifact of its kind. In fact, the Bayeux Tapestry has inspired a number of other similar needlework tapestries, all with the express purpose of capturing the history of various cultures around the world. Let’s uncover some of the tapestries created as a response to the Bayeux Tapestry … Embroiderers Guild of America, 19 July 2023
Embroidery and the 2023 Archibald Prize Win
The 2023 winning artwork for the prestigious Archibald Prize included the use of textiles, collage and embroidery, a first for this highly esteemed prize - and that’s proving to be tricky for some art critics.
Why? Because it’s challenging the norms of art - but does it really?
Listen to the latest Stitch Safari Podcast episode here: Embroidery and the 2023 Archibald Prize Win. Cathy Jack Coupland, Stitch Safari Podcast, June 2023
New stitches added to Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank
25 brand new stitches have been added to RSN Stitch Bank, bringing the total up to 350 stitches. Each stitch entry contains information about its history, use and structure as well as a step-by-step method with photographs, illustrations and video. Royal School of Needlework, 21 June 2023
A Teacher in 1876 Handcrafted This Quilt to Help Teach Astronomy to Her Class
Ellen Harding Baker, an American astronomer from the 19th century … is famous for one particularly crafty education method. She is rumored to have spent 7 years embroidering the entire solar system onto a quilt, which she then used as a visual aid during her lectures … Emma Taggart, My Modern Met, 27 November 2018
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