From Thread to Needle: Modern Embroidery Artwork

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

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