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Embroidery – May/Jun 2025
It’s time to let your toes feel the warmth of the sun while you delve inside the May/June issue of Embroidery magazine.
Our cover artist is Susie Vickery, who highlights the impact of climate change and our carbon footprints in her art, which is made using recycled elements. A former costumier, Susie has amassed a fine collection of cloth, but if she can’t find something suitable scours charity shops and even the tip.
And in an article on the theme of reusing graphic mid-century pieces in her work, Anne Kelly explains where she sources her vintage gems.
Our interview this month is with the Great British Sewing Bee’s on-screen fashion historian Amber Butchart, who has curated the exhibition Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style at the Design Museum.
We put Suchitra Mattai’s work reusing and updating classic needlepoints in the spotlight, along with the large, tapestry-like stitched landscape textiles of Michala Gyetvai, monumental Korean blanket art of Seulgi Lee and the offbeat works of Amy Claire Mills.
Encompassing Liverpool Biennial, Bradford 2025: UK City of Culture, London Craft Week, the forthcoming Soft Power exhibition, plus results from the National Embroidery Awards and Viewers’ Choice winner from The Broderers’ Exhibition: The Art of Embroidery, this is an issue not to miss. We hope you enjoy it!
We are proud to be the magazine of choice for people with an interest in creative, innovative stitched work and textiles including students, textile artists, gallery owners and curators.
Our mission
Our mission is to bring you the best of embroidery and textiles, talking to makers and artists who share their passion for embellishing the surface with us – giving our readers a unique insight into all facets of this sumptuous craft
Our history
Embroidery magazine is published six times a year and first rolled off the press in 1932 – making it one of the longest standing textile magazines published today. The Embroiderers’ Guild has digitised the complete archive of its publication Embroidery magazine as well as The Embroideress. Dating back to 1922, containing over 450 issues the new archive is available for institutional and individual subscriptions and is seamlessly available across web, iOS and Android devices. https://bit.ly/EmbroideryArchive
Regular features
Each issue of Embroidery magazine features in-depth artist profiles, artist’s essays, reviews of the latest textile books and exhibitions, news & listings of fashion and textile exhibitions in the UK and abroad, along with inspirational images
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Feel Inspired
Amanda Cobbett began life as a designer but is now wowing a whole new audience with her hyperreal take on the natural world, in particular her machine embroidered 3D sculptures of fungi. This feature was written by Deena Beverley and published in the November/December 2019 issue
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Ann Goddard was announced as winner of the inaugural Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award in 2019 and was interviewed by Jo Hall for the January/February 2020 issue.
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