The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine

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The research is really interesting, returning to primary sources, no relying on Victorian writers (who often made up things - yes they did!!). The writing is let down by repetition and a bit of rambling, a tighter edit would have been good. The illustrations are relevant but the quality lets them down.

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I devoured this in one sitting ... McBrinn has drawn together such a readable history of this hitherto overlooked subject, which not only demands to be recognised alongside Rozsika Parker's, but prompts fresh discourse on men's history in needlework.

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As a women and a textile artist I am intensely interested in the group I belong to and its history. Parker describes the activity of Lady Julia Calverley who in the early first half of the 18 th century embroidered for 50 years literally covering everything from slippers to wall hangings with stitch. To me this signals what little else she had to do but also the addictive nature of sewing. I am sure I’m not the only one who has felt that one more row or patch or line led to yet another late into the night. In the introduction to the latest edition the author discusses the work and impact of Louise Bourgeois. Like me Parker feels the work of Louise Bourgeois has done a lot to bring textiles to within high art and suggests that her work has also led to a deeper understanding of women’s expression through textiles. Reading this book has enabled me to look at embroidery from the past and present in a more informed way. Softness of form and colour in the wall-mounted collage of carpet offcuts by Bea Bonafini are inspired the Neolithic cave paintings found in the Sicilian island of Levanzo. The intertwined forms of ‘Shape Shifting V’ move concentrically and from human to animal, recalling the urgency of hunting scenes and spiritual imagery painted on walls in the darkness of hidden cave chambers. The use of carpet being transferred to the wall and hung as an artwork also challenges the expected use and display of an everyday, functional material.

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I had read this many years ago, but had decided it would be timely to reread this since I have been reading books like Craftivism, Bibliocraft, Strange material and the Bayeaux Tapestry. This one really did come first, and those other titles follow very worthily. It is a bit dated, but still a very strong book to read, and much of the anger over historical depictions is still very valid. It is still necessary reading (well, at least very strongly suggested reading) after reading some of the titles listed earlier in the review. This new edition of The Subversive Stitch brings the book up to date with exploration of the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male embroiderers. Algo semejante pasa desde el punto de vista racial. Hablando de subversión, ¿obligaban a las esclavas negras a bordar, quedaba esa labor reservada a las mujeres blancas? De la misma manera en que el bordado tiene su papel en el movimiento sufragista, ¿lo hizo en la lucha por los derechos civiles de los afroamericanos? El libro se me acaba antojando demasiado blanco, y me da rabia que esas preguntas no fueran ni someramente respondidas. I used this book as a major component of my research for my masters thesis. I was writing about the Glasgow Girls, specifically Ann Macbeth. I am so thankful for this book for having more information on these remarkable women than almost any other text and so much insightful knowledge about this brave woman.Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fostered the emergence of today's dynamic and expanding crafts movements. As ever with embroidery it is important to establish how far the choice of subject matter was determined by the general social, political, and artistic developments of the time and how far women's specific experience and the history of embroidery dictated the needlewomen's choice. No obstante, sí hay algo que me toca un poco la moral: esa tendencia de los anglosajones a describir cualquier materia en términos exclusivamente anglosajones (Rozsika Parker hace alguna referencia a la Rusia posrevolucionaria, poco más). Es decir, te escriben, por ejemplo, una historia sobre la jardinería para zurdos en Estados Unidos e Inglaterra, pero la titulan Historia de la jardinería para zurdos, punto. Que ya se sabe que los EE. UU. y el United Kingdom son el puto mundo entero. Since I am new in the world of embroidery, I was eager to read such an interesting looking work as this and I must say I was not disappointed. I really, really enjoyed this look at embroidery and the making of the feminine throughout (mostly English) history. I give it 4 stars only because it would have really been improved by colour photos at a higher resolution...but this re-issue is very fine otherwise.

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Needlework practice is considered inferior for a number of reasons. First, as a craft it ranks low in the art/design/craft continuum, especially relative to masculine mediums like glass, wood and metal. Second, Rozsika Parker brought attention to its inferior status because it was done by women and deemed feminine. And, finally, in design’s predominantly male, and society’s patriarchal, environment Joseph McBrinn documents the men who are deemed inferior because they do needlework and vice versa. Design must welcome more revisionist history that takes into account the contributions of minorities and denigrated practices that have thus far been excluded from the canon. Rambles a bit but this is an interesting (if currently dated) look at Embroidery and how in many ways it has come to define a certain level of femininity. How it went from being a career to being an acceptable way for women to pass their time and how it has been diminished by both men and women.

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