Embroidery Magazine

24 February 2023

Add a little colour to your life with the latest issue of Embroidery magazine. Our cover shows the highly skilled work of embroiderer Amanda McCavour and you can read more about her exquisite specimen-like embroideries in a six-page feature inside. From Mexico, the duo Celeste bring us monumental textiles dyed in warm hues, based on the country’s long history of muralism. We look inside the pages of the evocatively-named book An Indigo Summer, about a mother and daughter sharing grief one summer while they dyed with indigo in their garden. In Fresh Talent, meet Willemien Downes-Wechgelaer and her kaleidoscopic works. From New Zealand, we profile two exceptionally bright individuals, Lissy and Rudi, whose theme colours are neons. Someone pass the sunglasses please. Meanwhile, in April in Paris, we tell you how you can go on a Textile Tour of Paris (much like the film Mrs Harris Goes to Paris) in the incredibly skilled hands of former haute couture embroiderer Rebecca Devaney. We catch up, too, with David Morrish after he appeared on the TV show Make it to Market on BBC One. On a high after the filming, what was to happen next was to give him one of the biggest lows of his life. In First Person, Rezia Wahid tells us how she imbues her woven works with her feelings about pregnancy and motherhood. We also meet Embroiderers’ Guild member Lesley Woods, who reveals what came next when she inherited a box of her mother’s threads. Finally, Queen Bee Esme Young, presenter of the BBC’s The Great British Sewing Bee, lets us go behind the scenes to visit her sewing room in Hackney. What did we find? There is so much more to read in this issue, it’s one to dip into over time. We have news of Sunbury Embroidery Gallery’s extension, reviews of exhibitions, some of our favourite books, sewing holiday courses, a look at making clothes for Richard III in the film The Lost King, news, what’s on and, of course, Embroidery Loves – who features? You’ll have to take a look. We hope very much that you enjoy the issue and we’d love to hear from you with suggestions for content, news, what’s on, reviews and features at embroideryeditorial@warnersgroup.co.uk Until the next time. Claire Editor