Embroidery Magazine

Embroidery magazine is exclusively devoted to all aspects of embroidery and stitched textiles in art, design, craft and textile culture.

The magazine has built a reputation for quality and integrity over the years. Our goal is to bring you the latest, most exciting and innovative stitched work – we interview the artists, educators, curators and designers who matter, showcasing their talent as well as reporting on trends.

In each issue you will find in-depth profiles, artists’ essays, and reviews of the latest textile books and exhibitions, as well as news and listings of fashion and textile exhibitions in the UK, all underpinned by inspirational photography.

Embroidery is published six times a year in January, March, May, July, September and November. It is available on subscription and enjoyed by creative people with an interest in creative, innovative stitched work and textiles.

The Embroideress was a quarterly magazine published by Pearsall and Company and the Old Bleach Linen Company from 1922 until 1939. The Embroideress published articles by a new generation of embroidery teachers who were leading the way in terms of creativity in stitching. Illustrations were black and white, with some colour plates. The magazine contained current designs, reviews of books and current embroidery exhibits, information on embroidery from different countries, articles about historical textiles or collections, and different embroidery techniques.

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!