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In the last years I’ve been working in long term projects that entertain facing ghosts and loss, I see them as part of a shadow work process. Textiles, words, brut embroidery + other raw or found materials are my ritual elements for inner and outer transformation. The results are usually relics from the act itself.
Sharing a little inspirational carousel showing embroidery and sewing art/works as rituals of grief, trauma processing or even channelled/mediumistic art, which I find fascinating.
First slide shows a composition with hair and text as sentimental memory. Mid XXth century I think!
Victorian paper with hair cross stitch from Weaver’s Cottage (Scotland).
Found in https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/forget-me-not-revealing-victorian-mourning-customs
One of my favourite pieces ever.
Embroidered jacket with autobiographical text by Agnes Richter (1844–1918) who was a German seamstress. She made this piece while being held in Heidelberg psychiatric hospital against her will.
Two details of embroideries attributed to the household of Mary Queen of the Scots and Mary herself produced during her long arrest by order of her cousin Elizabeth I, who finally got her beheaded.
The snake one is part of The Cavendish hanging by Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury during 1570-85. These pieces are currently exhibited at Oxburgh Hall, although the monkey I couldn’t find, but I love it so much.
“They were made using counted-thread embroidery (a technique in which a set number of stitches are decided on before the embroider begins work), with stitches worked over the threads of a coarsely woven linen canvas, using coloured silks and gold, silver and silver-gilt thread.”
The motifs depicted were sometimes used as metaphors about injustice and abuse of power.
More info at https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/prison-embroideries-mary-queen-of-scots
There are some displayed at the V&A museum, they’re so stunning.
Josefa Tolrà’s trance channelled embroidery.
“A textile worker from Cabrils, a small town on the Maresme province (Catalonia), Josefa Tolrà’s life was marked by the death of her two sons. Overcome by grief, she began to connect wit
Sharing a little inspirational carousel showing embroidery and sewing art/works as rituals of grief, trauma processing or even channelled/mediumistic art, which I find fascinating.
First slide shows a composition with hair and text as sentimental memory. Mid XXth century I think!
Victorian paper with hair cross stitch from Weaver’s Cottage (Scotland).
Found in https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/forget-me-not-revealing-victorian-mourning-customs
One of my favourite pieces ever.
Embroidered jacket with autobiographical text by Agnes Richter (1844–1918) who was a German seamstress. She made this piece while being held in Heidelberg psychiatric hospital against her will.
Two details of embroideries attributed to the household of Mary Queen of the Scots and Mary herself produced during her long arrest by order of her cousin Elizabeth I, who finally got her beheaded.
The snake one is part of The Cavendish hanging by Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury during 1570-85. These pieces are currently exhibited at Oxburgh Hall, although the monkey I couldn’t find, but I love it so much.
“They were made using counted-thread embroidery (a technique in which a set number of stitches are decided on before the embroider begins work), with stitches worked over the threads of a coarsely woven linen canvas, using coloured silks and gold, silver and silver-gilt thread.”
The motifs depicted were sometimes used as metaphors about injustice and abuse of power.
More info at https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/prison-embroideries-mary-queen-of-scots
There are some displayed at the V&A museum, they’re so stunning.
Josefa Tolrà’s trance channelled embroidery.
“A textile worker from Cabrils, a small town on the Maresme province (Catalonia), Josefa Tolrà’s life was marked by the death of her two sons. Overcome by grief, she began to connect wit
Comments (12)
a month agoatomica_brownie
Uff esto es muy conmovedor, gracias por recopilarlo y mostrarnoslo amiga🤍
a month agosweetrebeldy
Josefa Tolraaaaaaaaaaaa. Amo. Y en mi pinterest también tengo la chaqueta victoriana hecha por una reclusa. Todo tiene que ver mucho con mi último proyecto que llevo haciendo desde 2016 (no recuerdo cuando empecé si en el 16 o el 18).
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