embroidery

Some lovely South American embroideries..

Embroidery at Les Soeurs Anglaises

Susie's British butterfly



Susie's magical works








Agnes's lovely embroidery

These attempts are by yours truly!

I just returned to London after spending 6 wonderful days in the South of France at Les Soeurs Anglaises. It was so lovely to meet Susie Cowie who ran the embroidery workshop and to see her beautiful work in person. It was an absolute pleasure spending embroidery days with the 10 lovely ladies from across the globe who each had very different styles and stories. Together we experimented with different embroidery techniques, visited a local Sunday Brocante in Verteillac, a charming 16C Abbey which was holding an embroidery exhibition, and ate the most incredible food cooked by Katie, Carol and Susu in the main house 3 times a day! Many lovely inspiring memories...

Susie Cowie

I saw the work of Susie Cowie, a young English embroiderer, in the recent Jane Campion film Bright Star. Jane Campion has created a masterpiece with this film, the costumes, music, cinematography and script comes together so well.

It's so great to see Susie's individual approach to hand embroidery, the illustrative style is beautiful.

Kuba Embroideries

I have been researching Kuba embroideries for a textile design job. I believe these pieces are from the Congo. The way the patterns interlink in no particular grid pattern is interesting, unlike much European and Islamic or Asian pattern design. The pattern although geometric has an organic look..

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