Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.
Woolf’s writing illuminates the special place that sewing held in British households from the late 19th century.
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 allows us to enter an immersive state of balance between skill and challenge.