the British ritual year

expresses a provocative

and creativity

and left scars everywhere as the hard stone melted like wax under those burning feet

um dem Klang der Welt auf die Spur zu kommen

Stitching Freedom - Embroidery and Incarceration Nigel Peake the British ritual yearFor centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needlemoving in and out of fabric. 'Stitching Freedom' explores the embroidery made in prisons andmental health hospitals those who have embroidered to distract, to reflect, or to calm. From Mary, Queen of Scots to Lorina Bulwer, embroidery historian and curator Isabella Rosner unpicks twelve embroidered histories to discover what can be created when freedom is out