Embroidery Magazine - November/December 2024

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!