Jul/Aug 2024
Embroidery Magazine Jul/Aug issue is out now!
A note from the Editor.
Enjoy the summer with Embroidery magazine
In the July/August issue of Embroidery magazine, we visit the beach through the work of Jane Colquhoun and Capucine Bourcart. From her Swanage sewing room, Jane Colquhoun has a view of the sea and coastal influences inspire her. After joining the experimental textile group seam collective, her work changed course with several series of intriguing small figures occupying her practice, including the stunning image featured on our cover. Similarly, US-based artist Capucine Bourcart has an experimental approach to art, using sand alongside embroidery.
Elsewhere, we preview the Harewood Biennial, meet a Japanese embroiderer whose practice is built around vegetables, delve inside a book that explores the connection between brain, manual dexterity and craft, and peek inside Vanessa’s Marr’s sewing room.
We bring you two tributes to the much-missed Louise Gardiner, whose beautiful work leaves a lasting legacy, and Christine Chester, whose quilt honouring the unnamed women embroiderers who have gone before will be part of a retrospective at the Festival of Quilts.
Also looking back, Julie Cockburn’s work combines retro photography with embroidered interventions, while Angela Knapp highlights the Red List birds of the Somerset Levels, which could be lost in her lifetime.
Fresh talent features US-based Kaylie Kaitschuck who imbues her work with considerable energy, while Instagrammer Megan Zaniewski surprises and delights in equal measure with thoroughly modern nature-inspired stumpwork.
We have all the regular features you love, from Embroidery Loves… to Take 5 books and Out and About, so we hope you enjoy the summer with Embroidery magazine.
A selection of work from our Jul/Aug 2024 issue
INSTRUCTIONAL AND SUBJECT PHOTOGRAPHY COPYRIGHT © 2024 BY MEGAN ZANIEWSKI, STUMPWORK EMBROIDERY AND THREAD PAINTING: STITCH 3-D NATURE MOTIFS (STASH BOOKS, C&T PUBLISHING, INC.); ARTWORK AND LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY COPYRIGHT © 2024 BY C&T PUBLISHING, INC.
Artist Christine Chester - War Tom 91cm x 182cm, which mourned civilian deaths in the Balkan/Bosnian conflict. Materials: cotton, builders', scrim, acrylic felt, found lace and fabrics. Techniques: dyed, painted, and discharged fabrics, screenprint, hand and machine quilted.