Stitching Freedom - Embroidery and Incarceration Legacy Russell Schmidt Leseprobe

Schmidt Leseprobe

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

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Stitching Freedom - Embroidery and Incarceration Legacy Russell Schmidt LeseprobeFor 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