FROM THE EDITOR

■ One sunny day in April, I was

How Susie is CREATIVELY TIPPING THE BALANCE

Susie Vickery’s eco-friendly ethic is present in all her work – even opulent designs for the opera

Bowie magic in store...

Striped bodysuit for Aladdin Sane tour, 1973.

FATA NO MORE

Immediate Live, organisers of The Knitting & Stitching

What does ‘home’ mean?

Tate Modern is presenting a major survey of

SUE’S OPEN STUDIO

PHOTO: © MICHAEL WICKS Sue Rangeley’s open studio

Mashed up in the Marshes

Threads of Time by Lorna Rand. A broken

Small but mighty

Isobel Currie Fly-stitch fibonacci spirals . Sally Spinks

Nurturing nature and embroidery

The Royal School of Needlework is championing biodiversity

NEWS IN BRIEF

● Recycling in style: Beth Somerville ( Embroidery

out and about

HIGH DAYS AND HOLIDAYS...

Winning ways

THE NATIONAL EMBROIDERY AWARDS PRODUCED A BUMPER CROP OF WINNERS

A BODY OF ART

Japanese artist Mari Katayama plays with self-portrait conventions to challenge our preconceptions in society

Making a splash

Claire Waring chats to Amber Butchart about life as BBC Sewing Bee ’s fashion historian, curating Splash! at the Design Museum and the joys of a good car boot sale

WATCH THE BIRDIE

Ellen Bell discovers Judy Dwyer’s artistic sanctuary in her Brighton home

LUSH PLUSH

Australian textile artist Amy Claire Mills is bringing her soft but defiant sculptures to the Liverpool Biennial

History in the making

A 62 GROUP MEMBER, ATHENA NEMETH’S DEEP CONNECTION WITH HISTORY INSPIRES HER ART

An act of mourning

A MEMBER OF THE 62 GROUP, LUCY BROWN HAS BEEN WEAVING HER OWN HAIR TO PROCESS HER DOUBLE ‘GRIEFS’

MEET VISUALISE TEXTILE GROUP

‘What are the origins of Visualise Textile Group?

take 5 books

Titles that enchant, educate and enliven debate...

Soft power

Anneka French chats to professors Lesley Millar and Alice Kettle as they introduce their new exhibition

It’s a wrap!

IMOGEN MORRIS HAS DEVELOPED A UNIQUE WAY OF WORKING, WITH WONDERFIL THREAD INTEGRAL TO HER PROCESS

On a grand scale...

For a fuller picture of our owner, the Embroiderers’ Guild charity, in a new series we’ll see how they are meeting their mission to build awareness of and educate people in stitch. Here, we talk to the keeper of the Guild’s embroidery collection

BLANKET STATEMENTS

SEULGI LEE COMBINES KOREAN PROVERBS – FROM ‘REPAIR THE COWSHED AFTER LOSING THE COW’ (= TOO LATE) TO ‘A FROG IN THE WELL’ (= NARROW MINDED) – WITH THE ANCIENT ART OF KOREAN QUILTING, TO MONUMENTAL EFFECT

The art of embroidery

The recent Broderers’ Exhibition tapped a rich seam of talent with 150 varied artworks on show

Rebirth

MICHALA GYETVAI PAINTS WITH FIBRES AND THREADS, CREATING LARGE AND MYSTERIOUS TEXTILE LANDSCAPES.

Vintage stock

ANNE KELLY DESCRIBES THE CREATIVE DELIGHT OF WORKING WITH VINTAGE TEXTILES

Giving a voice TO THE UNHEARD

Anneka French meets Suchitra Mattai, who uses stitch to tell the stories of the marginalised

THE MILL’S TALE

June Hill, co-curator of Ann Hamilton’s first exhibition in the UK for 30 years, explains the influence of Salts Mill on the US artist

exhibitions

TEXTILES: THE ART OF MANKIND Fashion and Textile

what’s on

ON SHOW ABERDEEN Reading Between the Lines: Embroidered

UNDER THE SEA

■ Penelope Williams ( Embroidery , Sep/Oct 2024)

APPLY FOR THE GUILD’S £1,000 SCHOLARSHIPS NOW!

Work by former scholars: top, Elnaz Yazdani;

LONDON CRAFT WEEK 2025

■ LONDON CRAFT WEEK, 12–18 MAY, celebrates outstanding