The Stitch Safari Podcast

This episode pays tribute to an embroidery artist who, from a very young age, was devoted to capturing and recording the beauty and complexity of nature, learning to note intricate details that would later lay a foundation for her work in textiles.
Show notes here: https://stitchsafari.com/australian-textile-artist-annemieke-mein/

This is a follow-up to the previous episode of the Stitch Safari Podcast, Masters of Our Machines, and focuses on books offering inspiration, technique, and thoughts on the artistry of machine embroidery today.
Show Notes: https://stitchsafari.com/machine-embroidery-book-reviews/

The sewing machine becomes an extension of ourselves and a means of describing the world around us. It can produce many marks and qualities to express artistic vision and perceptions, including colour, texture, dimension and pattern—just as a painter works with brushstrokes to create line, shape, and movement, our machines become a design and mark-making tool.
Show Notes: https://stitchsafari.com/masters-of-our-machines/

What a privilege to introduce two inspiring embroidery artists. Whether or not you like machine embroidery or small dolls, these two artists are worth studying for their amazing use of technique and how they apply that to create wonderful narratives - they bring ingenuity, inventiveness, flair and finesse to their art.

Emanating vintage vibes the fascinating, exciting, and inspiring genre of Steampunk, an off-shoot of science fiction is the perfect inspiration for a new body of textile and embroidered art - think past, present and future - all with a touch of mystery, adventure and romance.
Show Notes: https://stitchsafari.com/steampunk-and-textile-art/

This episode covers the vastly underrated and underused area of textiles, embroidery and fibre used to create imagery for children's books.  It's one we should all be looking at a little more closely.  
Show Notes: https://stitchsafari.com/books-using-stit…or-fibre-imagery/

In this episode, I review three YouTube videos that recreate historical costumes and embroidery, two with input from Hand and Lock and The Royal School of Needlework, the third is presented by a fashion historian.
Show Notes:  https://stitchsafari.com/videos-recreatin…e-and-embroidery/

The artworks featured in this episode are exemplars that thread is resilient and unifying, connecting heritage with painful memories and histories that can and have become the voice of the abused and the marginalised.
Show notes here: https://stitchsafari.com/stitch-and-texti…-art-two-artists/

Link a worldwide group of collaborative embroiderers to see the true power of stitch to connect and depict.  This episode highlights three collaborative embroidery projects driven by women for women.
Show notes: https://stitchsafari.com/collaborative-embroidery-projects/

I've chosen three books published at different times - 1980, 1994, and 2013 giving scope to all those ideas just waiting to be released into new traditional or innovative work, because I believe ‘you need to look back to move forward’.
Show Notes: https://stitchsafari.com/book-reviews-from-my-library/