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In her artwork for the project, Christina Leputla depicted victims of domestic violence fleeing their attacker.

August 23, 2023

The power of needlework: how embroidery is helping South African women tell unspeakable stories

Puleng Segalo, University of South Africa

Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.

Embroidery by a woman who lived through traumas of apartheid. Puleng Segalo

October 1, 2020

How embroidery broke the silence around women’s apartheid trauma

Puleng Segalo, University of South Africa

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.

A new act in the drama of the 58 scene medieval tapestry unfolds, as an art historian says the tapestry was made for Bayeux Cathedral. (Shutterstock)

November 18, 2019

Bayeux tapestry mystery: England’s cultural icon may have been made for France

Shirley Ann Brown, York University, Canada

The 950-year-old Bayeux Tapestry is as much an object of fascination for its mysterious origins and formidable craft as it is for the nationalist debates it continues to inspire.

Is this machine adding an antenna to the fabric? Hindrik Johannes de Groot/Shutterstock.com

March 12, 2018

Embroidering electronics into the next generation of ‘smart’ fabrics

Asimina Kiourti, The Ohio State University

Is an archaic sewing skill a key to connected, sensing, communicating fabrics of the future?

Part of a black cotton cushion cover depicting the Australian coat of arms embroidered by Lance Corporal Alfred Briggs (Albert Biggs), 20 Battalion, AIF. Courtesy of Australian War Memorial

April 24, 2017

Stitching lives back together: men’s rehabilitation embroidery in WWI

Emily Brayshaw, University of Technology Sydney

Embroidery - often seen as women’s work - was a common form of therapy for troops wounded in the first world war. One soldier, Albert Biggs, learned to sew with his left hand after his right arm was badly injured.

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