Stitch
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Bridging Arts has been working for some time on breaking down social and cultural barriers and bringing people together through an shared interest in fabric, pattern and embroidery. The first stage of this project, Stitch Wandsworth, was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Wandsworth Council.
We’ve been working with groups of Muslim and non-Muslim women across London, studying traditional embroidery and creating new work. Filmmaker Monica Alcazar came to our most recenty embroidery sessions. The first of her films can be viewed on YouTube.
These classes took place in spring 2011 in Harrow, north west London. We ran them in collaboration with the Asian Women’s Resource Centre, Harlesden, and were funded by Faiths in Action, through Communities and Local Government.
Pictures tell the story
A photogallery of embroidery created by Muslim women in Wandsworth, on display at one of Europe’s largest sewing and embroidery shows, the Knitting and Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London in autumn 2010. 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.
