From Thread to Needle: Contemporary Embroidery Art

Description

Showcasing over 80 international artists who incorporate embroidery into their practice, this book provides a survey of embroidery in contemporary art, illustrating the huge range of ways in which the craft has been embraced as a form of creative expression. Some artists evoke a kind of nostalgia, rediscovering skills that have fallen from fashion or promoting the value of ancient handicrafts in an industrialized world of mass-production. Others push boundaries by using embroidery on photographs, poetic installations, embroidered reproductions of everyday objects, or by using it to tackle political, personal or transgressive themes. From Thread to Needle is a captivating exploration of their creative journeys, their influences, the technical challenges they face and the message they wish to convey.

Charlotte Vannier is a writer, photo stylist and creator of objects for the press and publishing. After studying at the ESAG school of design in Paris, she became a freelance graphic designer before moving towards the creation of poetic and unusual objects. Author of a number of craft books, she is a jack-of-all-trades and works in many different media, including paper, lighting design, repurposing objects, sewing, photography and crochet. She is also the author of Unravelled: Contemporary Knit Art.