Stitching Freedom
Embroidery and Incarceration

Year: 2024
Publisher: Common Threads Press
Author: Isabella Rosner
Illustrator: Takako Copeland
Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 200x140mm
Extent: 72pp
ISBN: 9781916323476
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 — those who have embroidered to distract, to reflect or to calm. From Mary, Queen of Scots to Lorina Bulwer, embroidery historian and curator Isabella Rosner unpicks twelve embroidered histories to discover what can be created when freedom is out of reach.

Photo by Poppy Marriott
Photo by Poppy Marriott