“It’s useful to have the evidence stitched together.”
Five years, 46 feet, millions of stitches…
The Thread of Her Tale
Reflections on stitching inspired by Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell Trilogy: a place to talk about the wrong side of the fabric.
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“It is no easy matter, to break up the monasteries.”
It is all very well to decide to stitch the names of the religious who were pensioned off in the 1530s.
“There can be relocation; there can be pensions.”
Stitching the Religious
The Room of Cromwell
Moving Studio
There are no endings.
They are all beginnings. Here is one.
Fragments of Cromwell
Talking Stitching Cromwell, Wolf Crawl, and Hilary Mantel with Lucie Bea Dutton and Simon Haisell: a video chat
Three Card Trick:
Things may not be what they seem
Stitching Cromwell in Worcester
I am writing this piece from The Hive in Worcester, where I am supposed to be stitching for the week, alongside my Stitching Cromwell exhibition.
Never did any lady conduct herself with greater prudence and dignity than this ill-treated princess
Reading Agnes Strickland’s Lives of the Queen’s of England
Such outrages on common decency
Reading Agnes Strickland’s Lives of the Queen’s of England