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![careoftheself:
[floral cross stitch with text reading “act your rage”]
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American artist Cayce Zavaglia considers herself a painter, yet has difficulty considering her work of embroidered portraits as painting themselves.
Her realistic impressions of people are executed using crewel embroidery wool, for which over time she has created a system of sewing threads in a sequence that gives the appearance of a particular color or tone—her method of “mixing” colors. Threads are sewn in precise directions in order to mimic the way lines are layered in a typical drawing an allusion of depth, volume and form.amazing!
Elizabeth Parker’s cross-stitched account circa 1830 of her emotional trauma and suicide attempt after her employer pushed her down the stairs when she resisted his sexual advance. Elizabeth begins, “As I cannot write I put this down simply and freely as I might speak to a person whose intimacy and tenderness I can fully intrust myself…”
In some ways things have changed so much for women, but in others, not that much. The specter of assault by employers, violence from men when their attentions are rebuffed, the feelings of guilt and pain after the assault, the concealment of the event and her feelings.
my most favourite awe awe radical cross stitch of all time.
HOLY FUCK.
wow.
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