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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Through techniques that emerge from the domestic arts women are reclaiming stitching as a medium that goes beyond decoration or simple function. The needle is likened to a pencil or paint brush; thread yarn and fibre is the paint. The artists profiled within Stitch-illo honour their own histories and cultures while layering upon them. Wielding simple needle and thread they stitch powerful messages. They push boundaries both of what society expects of women’s art and what the artists expect of themselves. They illustrate the world around them-or conjure new ones from deep within their imagination. They create beauty and find peace. They tell deeply personal stories and in the process share universal ones of connection and feeling. (SP)