{"product_id":"stitching-freedom-embroidery-incarceration","title":"Stitching Freedom. Embroidery \u0026 Incarceration","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Isabella Rosner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needle moving in and out of fabric.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eStitching Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores the embroidery made in prisons and mental health hospitals — those who have embroidered to distract, to reflect or to calm. From Mary, Queen of Scots to Lorina Bulwer, embroidery historian and curator Isabella Rosner unpicks twelve embroidered histories to discover what can be created when freedom is out of reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIsabella Rosner\u003c\/strong\u003e is Curator of the Royal School of Needlework, Research Associate at Witney Antiques and host of the \u003cem\u003eSew What?\u003c\/em\u003e podcast. She is an art historian who studies material culture from the seventeenth through nineteenth century, and specialises in the study of early modern women’s needlework, especially British examples, and schoolgirl samplers across all time periods. Isabella is a 2023 BBC\/AHRC New Generation Thinker and has just completed her PhD at King’s College London, where she studied Quaker women’s needle, shell, and wax work before 1800.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50999644324174,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/rqi8ugyl.png?v=1738423959","url":"https:\/\/eastbristolbooks.live\/products\/stitching-freedom-embroidery-incarceration","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}