Stitched together

Artists including Ai Weiwei and Cornelia Parker have collaborated with sewers in British prisons for a new exhibition

Hi friends! Here are some stitches I use to make dolls and stuffed animals. I use the ladder stitch to attach my stuffed doll parts together. I use this stitch to join pieces when handsewing projects from wool felt And here are the embroidery stitches I use… to outline eyes, stitch eyebrows and mouth or …

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Today, we're dedicating a list to embroidery and its community on Reddit, r/embroidery. We have a new collection of the most gorgeous projects people shared there, so scroll away and be inspired!

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Horror manga giant Junji Ito teams up with spooky story writer Hirokatsu Kihara for the ultimate collection of fright-filled ghost tales! A tumor shaped like a man's face slowly moves across a woman's body. The sea shoots glowing balls into the sky, much to the distress of beachgoers. And a girl dressed up for a holiday has no eyes, no nose, nothing--her face is a total blank. Hirokatsu Kihara pens true stories of unsolved mysteries, stitched together with page after page of Junji Ito's…

By Emma Parker - Stitch Therapy. - Could symbolise how your mother 'fixes you' when you're upset/ hurt/ etc. She puts you back together again.

A damaged, radical contrarian whose work nevertheless manifested an achingly open and optimistic sensibility.

A humble tailor is very skilled at his work, but finds the complex patchwork of love painful to stitch together. One day, he visits a farmers market and is drawn to a beautiful puppet, whose vendor utters only: "His name is Theu." Though the puppet is inanimate, the tailor inexplicably falls for Theu, day by day finding that patchwork of love no longer painful. Viscera Objectica is a graphic novella that explores the depth of feeling that develops between man and object, lover and loved.