Stitching Freedom: Embroidery & Incarceration women and other experiments in voice

and other experiments in voice

and insights on photography—offering the workshop experience in a book

and Helene Cixous

Joachim Sartorius and Tobias Zepter

Bob Martens

Stitching Freedom: Embroidery & Incarceration women and other experiments in voiceFor centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needle moving in and out of fabric. Stitching Freedom explores the embroidery made in prisons and mental health hospitals those who have embroidered to distract, to reflect or to calm. From Mary, Queen of Scots to Lorina Bulwer, embroidery historian and curator Isabella Rosner unpicks twelve embroidered histories to discover what can be created when freedom is out of