Sunday, 17 May 2015

I'm so happy to have seen two words in connection with each other in this week's news: Cornelia Parker and embroidery! Parker took a screen shot of the Magna Carta Wikipedia listing on its 799th birthday last year, divided it into 87 sections and sent it to 200 people around the world for embroidery. The result is a 13-meter hand-stitched work of art, exhibited in the British Library until 24th July.


Artists include the famous and the unknown, prisoners and academics. They are united by their love for embroidery, and it very much reminds of the V&A's Quilts 1700-2010 exhibition. Maybe I should finally finish my 'old' embroidery project over the summer?

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