Make Art with Every Stitch

EMBROIDERY ART is an art form that uses a needle, a thread and other items, rather than a brush, paint, pen or pencil.
Embroidery is often included in historical paintings, but it is reflected as a detail rather than the subject itself.

Various modern artists include embroidery or embroiderers in their paintings – especially those that have a social or political message.

In the early twenty-first centuries, more and more people were acquiring old pieces of embroidery and used them as an item of interior design, with no obvious link to the original function of the item. In some cases dresses, coats or shawls are simply hung on the wall.
Embroideries from medieval ecclesiastical vestments were used as upholstery .A woman’s dress is framed in the same manner as a painting, or a woman’s head covering from Yemen is opened up and used as a table runner. Because of this form of recycling, these objects take on a new identity, namely they have the role of ‘Art’ and as such they are preserved.

But all too often, however, these 'art' objects lack a story, a context, and the viewers no longer know or understand what the object actually was, how it was used and who were the people behind it. But does this actually matter if the creative nature and technical skill of the embroidery are appreciated? By being changed into ‘art’, such embroideries can take on a second life instead of being thrown out. Different people see and use a piece of embroidery in a wide variety of ways.