Anne Morrell
Sarabhai Foundation and Calico Museum of Textiles, Ahmedabad, India
The practice of stitch as movement
Embroidery stitches and techniques have their origins in basketry, weaving and sewing. Such stitches are used with a variety of different fabrics and threads to achieve many different effects, both practical and ornamental.
The stitch techniques are interconnected, their separation and nomenclature is for ease of identification. However, this closes off approaches that have been employed by the makers' of the very objects being classified.
Understanding the use of stitch by changes in movement reveals the makers' creative use of stitches, the ingenious development of stitch with different fabrics, threads and tools.
