From Thread to Needle: Contemporary Embroidery Art

Showcasing over 80 worldwide artists who incorporate embroidery into their observe, this e-book supplies a survey of embroidery in modern artwork, illustrating the massive vary of the way wherein the craft has been embraced as a type of inventive expression. Some artists evoke a type of nostalgia, rediscovering abilities which have fallen from style or selling the worth of historic handicrafts in an industrialized world of mass-production. Others push boundaries by utilizing embroidery on pictures, poetic installations, embroidered reproductions of on a regular basis objects, or by utilizing it to deal with political, private or transgressive themes.

From Thread to Needle is a fascinating exploration of their inventive journeys, their influences, the technical challenges they face and the message they want to convey.