Threads: Contemporary Embroidered Art

by Charlotte Vannier

Showcasing over 80 international artists who incorporate embroidery into their practice, this book provides a survey of embroidery in contemporary art, illustrating the huge range of ways in which the craft has been embraced as a form of creative expression. Some artists evoke a kind of nostalgia, rediscovering skills that have fallen from fashion or promoting the value of ancient handicrafts in an industrialized world of mass-production. Others push boundaries by using embroidery on photographs, poetic installations, embroidered reproductions of everyday objects, or by using it to tackle political, personal or transgressive themes.

From Thread to Needle is a captivating exploration of their creative journeys, their influences, the technical challenges they face and the message they wish to convey.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

368 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2018

Reviews

[Laroy Viviane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Très agréable compilation d’artistes dans une discipline bien sous-estimée.

[gabrielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Um. I have no idea how I ended up with this. Modern art is really not my thing, and there were very few works in here I could relate to. Some of the remainder turned my stomach.

But if art is supposed to make you feel something, they were all successful.

[Yellowoasis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every page of this book leaves you gasping as you see what amazing artists there are in the world doing the most extraordinary work. Breathtaking, inspirational.

[Valerie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing and inspiring.