A note from the Editor.

A riot of colours blazes across the cover of Embroidery magazine’s November/December issue, signalling an edition ‘with all the trimmings’. Jenny Steele’s passementerie practice produces showstopping artworks, often made in collaboration with community groups and always with an eye on sustainability. We focus on some of her more recent works, which look to rural traditions and rituals.

Jacqui Parkinson is a name many will know, with her work exhibited at cathedrals around the country. We catch up with her as her 10-year project to depict stories from the Bible draws to a close… but there’s just time for one enormous finale.

Profiled too are Aurelia Jaubert, whose monumental montages are cut and pinned on the floor and viewed by the artist from a ladder; Turner Prize nominee Delaine Le Bas, who tells us about her feeling for fabric; Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, who sets out to redefine the image of Roma; and Amanda Cobbett, whose fascination for producing lifelike copies of fungi, mosses and lichens is undimmed.

Elsewhere, we get a sneak preview of the Hand & Lock Prize; Poppy Treffry shows us her sewing room; Alison Carpenter-Hughes relates the story of her high-flying artworks; Lindsay Olson writes of being inspired by King Tutankhamun; and we meet the fresh faces of new group, The Bound Collective.

We have all the usual extras, such as news, courses, books and reviews, with a few Christmassy extras, including a festive gift guide and a textile art take on Christmas dinner with all the trimmings. Mince Pie in Disguise, anyone?

We hope you enjoy the issue!

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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

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.

Rozanne Hawksley found her métier whilst teaching at Goldsmiths in the 1970s. She developed a singular art practice that reflected upon the subjects of war, loss and the abuse of power. June Hill spoke to Hawksley as part of Embroidery’s ‘pioneer’ series, which examined the careers of leading embroiderers of the late 20th century.