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front 07 EMBROIDERY LOVES Anne von Freyburg rethinks textiles within the tradition of painting 08 NEWS Some stories and events to take note of, including a Grayson Perry exhibition 15 MADEIRA PRIZE Catch up with the winners of the Madeira Embroidery Competition 16 BROTHER WINNERS UPDATE The winners of our Machine Made competition, in association with Brother [Sewing Machines], reveal their progress regulars 10 FRESH TALENT Katie Tubbing, 27, unveils her latest high fashion project, chokers with personality 12 OPEN BOOK Michelle Holmes relates the development of her stitch character Betty, a Facebook favourite and now the subject of a book 18 OFFBEAT ARTIST Yoon Ji Seon’s art can be shocking in a gallery setting, from her nightmarish Rag Faces to her masculine female nudes 20 THE SEWING ROOM After lockdown, Ekta Kaul left her London studio for the countryside 22 PREVIEW: THE RED DRESS For Kirstie Macleod, the Red Dress project has provided her with incredible highs but also some exceptional lows 40 FIRST PERSON Marian Jazmik travels widely, and seeks inspiration in coastal areas 50 MEET THE TAG GROUP TAG are inspired by Calderdale 56 PREVIEW: 10 YEARS OF LCW What’s on at London Craft Week features 24 A COLOURFUL LIFE Mexican artist Victoria Villasana yarnbombs black and white photographs and also the street, like a ‘Textile Banksy’ 28 REVELLING IN RUINS Delighting in decay, Sue Hotchkis’s art is furiously worked and often an exaggeration of the rack and ruin that inspires her 38 NORTH AND SOUTH Alison Aye is delighted to be one of the newest members of the 62 Group and works with stitched paper and textiles 44 SEWING SEEDS OF RECOVERY Creating vintage-inspired art dolls helped artist and therapist Sam Miller recover from 15 years of chronic fatigue syndrome 48 HISTORY: NEEDLE-PAINTERS Tate Britain’s exhibition about women artists in Britain, 1520–1920, includes two needlepainters, who were famous in their day 52 EDUCATION, EDUCATION The RSN is at the pinnacle of the embroidery world and keeps standards high through rigorous training programmes reviews 37 OUT AND ABOUT Create a British bee in stitch or visit one of several festivals themed around textiles 43 BETWEEN THE COVERS A new zine spotlights those who stitched while incarcerated, highlighting their anguish 55 EXHIBITIONS The BIBA Story, 1964–1975, at the Fashion and Textile Museum, by Hattie Gordon 58 WHAT’S ON A look at the months ahead c o n t e nt s
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