In her artwork for the project, Christina Leputla depicted victims of domestic violence fleeing their attacker.
Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.
Sewing Fisherman’s Wife by Anna Ancher (1890).
Randers Museum of Art
Woolf’s writing illuminates the special place that sewing held in British households from the late 19th century.
Embroidery by a woman who lived through traumas of apartheid.
Puleng Segalo
Persistent challenges of the past and the present burden women with unspoken traumas, but art such as needlework is a way to break the silence.
Craft can be done solitary or with other people, and its up to you to decide.
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Craft allows us to enter an immersive state of balance between skill and challenge.