Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts

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Johanna Amos (Queen's University, Ontario, Canada) Lisa Binkley (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Stitching the Self

Identity and the Needle Arts

Johanna Amos (Queen's University, Ontario, Canada), Lisa Binkley (Dalhousie University, Canada)

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
29 July 2021

Textile artworks; History of fashion; Social & cultural history; Needlework & fabric crafts

The needle arts are traditionally associated with the decorative, domestic, and feminine. Stitching the Self sets out to expand this narrow view, demonstrating how needlework has emerged as an art form through which both objects and identities – social, political, and often non-conformist – are crafted.

Bringing together the work of ten art and craft historians, this illustrated collection focuses on the interplay between craft and artistry, amateurism and professionalism, and re-evaluates ideas of gendered production between 1850 and the present. From quilting in settler Canada to the embroidery of suffragist banners and the needlework of the Bloomsbury Group, it reveals how needlework is a transformative process – one which is used to express political ideas, forge professional relationships, and document shifting identities.

With a range of methodological approaches, including object-based, feminist, and historical analyses, Stitching the Self examines individual and communal involvement in a range of textile practices. Exploring how stitching shapes both self and world, the book recognizes the needle as a powerful tool in the fight for self-expression.

Edited by: Johanna Amos (Queen's University Ontario Canada), Lisa Binkley (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9781350242418
ISBN 10: 1350242411
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 29 July 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Johanna Amos is Assistant Professor (adjunct) of art, textile, and fashion history at Queen's University, Ontario, Canada Lisa Binkley is Assistant Professor in Material Culture, and Indigenous and Settler Women's Histories in the Department of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Reviews for Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts

Stitching the Self considers historical textiles and the lives that made them. Diverse examples - from the English Bloomsbury group to a Swiss psychiatric asylum - show how textile making has long been used as an effective tool to craft personal and group identities. * Jessica Hemmings, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Needles are evocative tools of material expression. This collection reveals the freighted history and practice of needlework, whose signal importance is demonstrated across this engrossing volume. Makers from varied circumstances are showcased in compelling ways, challenging categories of artistic production. * Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta, Canada * A diverse range of essays which richly illustrate the importance of needlecrafts in forging, reconstituting, recovering and reclaiming individual and collective identifies. Focusing on Europe and North America, the authors illuminate hidden histories, challenge gender stereotypes and disrupt art/craft and professional/amateur binaries. * Vivienne Richmond, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *