Stitch in time

IT’S LITTLE, EVERYDAY MOMENTS THAT MAKE UP OUR LIVES. EMBROIDERY ARTIST JORDAN CUNLIFFE RECORDS THESE MOMENTS, AND ENCOURAGES US TO DO THE SAME, MINDFULLY, STITCH BY STITCH

I’m an embroidery artist, born and still living in Lancashire, a place built around the cotton textile industry. I’ve found textile connections scattered all over my family tree, spanning generations. One of my very early memories is of cross-stitching personalised bookmarks on chunky aida, sliding notes to mum while she was on the phone to make sure I was spelling all the names right. After university, I began to hone my textile craft. Amid a creative block, I started stitching, then I started to count those stitches, then I started to think; ‘what would it look like if I made a stitch for every day of my life…’ and so it began. I began to use stitches to represent data: always based on the personal, always trying to tell a…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2024

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