Welcome to Week One of Project eARTh’s Mexican Embroidery Project, an exciting and colourful project to cheer us up during winter and lockdown, inspired by embroidery from the Otomi region of Mexico, with Amanda Whewell – artist.
Feel free to join in, by following the PDF Activity Sheet and the short ‘how to’ film, to be found here:
Click here for the activity sheet pdf.
The Activity sheet explains the history and context of this form of embroidery, and starts by looking at the individual nature inspired motifs that make up the designs and how they are patterned ready for stitching.
Week 2 will follow on February 22nd, after a half term break.
Then those people who love stitching, will embroider their designs onto 30 x 30cm calico. And others will post their designs outlined on calico, back to us, and we will then post them out to the members who would like to embroider more. We are going to leave plenty of time for stitching – people can relax and do that over Spring and Summer alongside other new projects. The final work will be put together for artwork for The Bureau in Glossop.
Get in touch with alison@highpeakarts.org if you would like to embroider your own or someone else’s design, so we can send you calico, hoop, needles and thread.