Stitching Freedom - Embroidery and Incarceration Legacy Russell David Haskell

David Haskell

Offering a counter-history of how mass popular change has occurred

In this new collection

planted with flowering perennials

And that's just the beginning

Stitching Freedom - Embroidery and Incarceration Legacy Russell David HaskellFor centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needlemoving in and out of fabric. 'Stitching Freedom' explores the embroidery made in prisons andmental health hospitals those who have embroidered to distract, to reflect, or to calm. From Mary, Queen of Scots to Lorina Bulwer, embroidery historian and curator Isabella Rosner unpicks twelve embroidered histories to discover what can be created when freedom is out