Stitch
Sewing and embroidery bring people of different cultural backgrounds, interests and beliefs together. Above: rare fish scale embroidery (worked in east Africa in the early 1970s, loaned by Zubaidah Shah.) Keep up to date with our blog here .
STITCH WANDSWORTH has been funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Wandsworth Council and run in partnership with the Royal School of Needlework. We’ve been working with groups of Muslim and non-Muslim women in Wandsworth, studying traditional embroidery and creating new work. Next on the agenda: six classes led by the Royal School of Needlework at the Furzedown Project, Tooting, looking at motifs inspired by this project. Please email to find out more.Pictures tell the story
Click on the pictures below to see a photogallery of the embroidery on display at the Knitting and Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London, in October 2009. Click in the top right hand corner of each photograph to move from one image to the next.
Click here to see photographs of the Asian Women’s Group, Wandsworth visiting the V&A and here to see women from the Katherine Lowe Settlement, Battersea, visiting the Royal School of Needlework’s collection at Hampton Court Palace.
Restart 50+, a group of retired Bangladeshi women from Tooting, here study printed patterns for embroidery at the V&A with curator Mor Thunder.
