STITCHING FREEDOM: EMBROIDERY & INCARCERATION by Isabella Rosner

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Title Stitching Freedom: Embroidery & Incarceration 
Author(s)/Editor(s) Isabella Rosner
Publisher Common Threads Press
Pages 68
Dimensions 150 x 210 mm
Format Softcover
Year 2024

For 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 reach.

(Illustrated by long-time LCBA studio member Takako Copeland)

About the Author:

Isabella Rosner is Curator of the Royal School of Needlework, Research Associate at Witney Antiques and host of the Sew What? podcast.

Isabella is an art historian who studies material culture from the seventeenth through nineteenth century. She specialises in the study of early modern women’s needlework, especially British examples, and schoolgirl samplers across all time periods. Isabella is a 2023 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and has just completed her PhD at King’s College London, where she studied Quaker women’s needle, shell, and wax work before 1800.

  • Title

    Stitching Freedom: Embroidery & Incarceration

  • Author / Editor

    Isabella Rosner

  • Publisher

    Common Thread Press

  • Pages

    68

  • Dimensions

    150 x 210mm

  • Format

    Softcover

  • Year

    2024

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