Embroidery Project
A section of a panel that has been created for the Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project
Opportunity to be part of a historic multiple panel Embroidery Project
Based on the famous Bayeux tapestries, the 'Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project' has invited Broken Hill to contribute an embroidered panel honouring the Quaker conservationists, Albert & Margaret Morris, as part of a historical 40 panel picture story representing different narratives in Australian Quaker history.
A rough plan for the Broken Hill panel, featuring the Morris’s and their Broken Hill regeneration project, in pictures and text, has been designed by local artists. Yet the final template for the panel will come together as details and colours fall into place based on aesthetics and practicalities.
A recent visit by project facilitator, Sally O’Wheel, introduced a group of six locals to the techniques involved in interpreting the images into simplified drawings that can be embroidered with wool onto a calico-backed woven woolen fabric. Each participant took a motif (floral or portrait), simplified it to a line drawing, chose a coloured woolen thread and started to stitch onto a small fabric sample.
Sally also brought with her a selection of 6 x completed story panels which were displayed to the public in the BHAE Heritage Kitchen Gallery last month.
If you would like to join us in this historic project, we have decided to meet on the last Saturday of every month at the Art Exchange to get sewing. No experience necessary. For inquiries, contact the Art Exchange info@brokenhillartexchange.org.au or Susanne 0433911956.
