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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration
Description: Todayâs book is: Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration (Common Threads Press, 2024), by Dr. Isabella Rosner, which considers how for centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needle moving in and out of fabric. Stitching Freedom explores the embroidery made in prisons and mental health hospitals â those who have embroidered to distract, to reflect or to calm. From Mary, Queen of Scots to Lorina Bulwer to âUnfortunate Annieâ Parker, embroidery historian and curator Isabella Rosner unpicks embroidered histories to discover what can be created when freedom is out of reach.Our guest is...