Stitchy Snippets - Susie Vickery

Susie Vickery's textile art incorporates a unique blend of hand embroidery, machine embroidery, collage and animation. Her work is illustrative and often holds a story.

Crow 2 - Watch the animation here.

Vickery is inspired by her work with communities on rural and refugee development projects in Nepal, Tibet, Myanmar and India and she 'draws on issues of iconography, identity, gender and Asian art'.

Baby Krishna - ICONS OF THE ORDINARY & EVERYDEITIES

Initially working as a costumier in film and TV for more than twenty years, Vickery's needlework skill is fundamental to her work.

ON THE MELANCHOLY OF TAILORS

My favourite piece is from the 'Sweatshops' collection and it's a row of animated machinists. Cotton reels and rulers are used to create the models. The piece is so beautifully crafted and it presents such a powerful message.

Please visit Susie Vickery's website to find out more about her work.

Sources of Inspiration - Textile Arts of Central Asia

I like my embroidery to be practical and Central Asian embroidery is very practical. Many examples of this type of embroidery are on everyday objects, from doors, to pouches, to clothes. Some great examples are found at the site, To Have and To Hold. This is an exhibition by The New England Rug Society. This exhibition displays a large collection of Central Asian embroidered bags.

The following site also looks at bags from Central Asia - LAKAI The Bad Beys of Central Asia again looks at bags, while Turkoman Embroidery and Women's Magic looks at a variety of objects created by Turkoman women, it specifically looks at only a single element of their embroidery tradition, the protective and magical functions of embroidery in birth, childhood and marriage.

The Renaissance Tailor has a great tutorial on how to make a central asian hat for winter and some examples of very bright embroidery for decorating them.

This site, Textile Arts of Central Asia, is a site at the Powerhouse Museum, set up to help Year 12 HSC (Higher School Certificate) students with their studies.