Kirstie Macleod : The Red Dress Global Embroidery Project

Textile artist Kirstie Macleod shares her life in fabric & thread on Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast today! She shares her fascinating story of The Red Dress. It's an amazing project which has enabled unheard women, many in poverty, vulnerable through trauma and abuse, to share their personal stories, using the universal language of embroidery and hand stitching. Kirstie had the idea for this dress back in 2009, and we chat about how the project and the dress has evolved over those years. Connections and contrasts, empowerment & celebration, this is a story packed full of emotions.  For this episode... View Show Notes, Links & Examples of The Red Dress at https://stitcherystories.com/thereddress Visit: https://reddressembroidery.com/ Look: https://www.instagram.com/thereddress_embroidery/ Like: https://www.facebook.com/thereddressembroidery Other places & people we mentioned: Tamay in Vietnam  https://reddressembroidery.com/Ly-Ta-May-Tamay  The FanSina artisans in St Catherines, Sinai, Egypt  Traces of Sisterhood, Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw, Poland  https://salonakademii.asp.waw.pl  ‘SPEAKING OUT’, an exhibition dedicated to and co-produced by women survivors of conflict-based sexual violence, with the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina.  https://warchildhood.org/speaking-out-exhibition-experiences-of-crsv-survivors-and-children-born-of-war/ Preston Park Museum, Yarm, Stockton-on-Tees  https://prestonparkmuseum.co.uk/  

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Stitchery Stories... Where textile artists share their life in fabric and thread. Embroidery. Textile Art. Inspiration, Techniques, Disasters and Delights. Join embroidery enthusiast and textile art dabbler, Susan Weeks, in her friendly chats with UK textile artists. Discover how they got started. Share the lessons learned along the way. Get excited about what they are working on at the moment. Learn how they keep their business growing, their creativity flowing, and get a sneak peek into what is coming next...