Description

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

About the book >.>.> As this example shows the embroidered thread is an additive mark which could be a dynamic edge a punctuationpoint or an accumulation of lines all of which have the potential to create a narrative plane. However hand embroidery has potency far deeper than its decorative surface: it is a form of handwriting delineating the domestic the social and the political. It also contains the physical traces of the stitcher. According to textile artist Maxine Bristow “The laborious working of row upon row of stitching the hand turning of buttonholes and cracking of gesso-encrusted cloth [-] every centimetre of the surface within my work bears the trace of my own DNA trapped within the fibres of the cloth.” Such trace elements were embedded in the embroidered belt that a Japanese soldier wore underneath his uniform. On the belt were stitches made by each of the people in his village so that he carried with him in the cloth and next to his skin an embodiment of their good wishes warmth and confidence. As such hand embroidery becomes the witness of both the soldier and the embroiderer (MP)