Textile artist Kirstie Macleod shares her life in fabric & thread on Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast today! She shares her fascinating story of The Red Dress.

It's an amazing project which has enabled unheard women, many in poverty, vulnerable through trauma and abuse, to share their personal stories, using the universal language of embroidery and hand stitching.

Kirstie had the idea for this dress back in 2009, and we chat about how the project and the dress has evolved over those years.

Connections and contrasts, empowerment & celebration, this is a story packed full of emotions.

 For this episode... View Show Notes, Links & Examples of The Red Dress at https://stitcherystories.com/thereddress

Visit: https://reddressembroidery.com/

Look: https://www.instagram.com/thereddress_embroidery/

Like: https://www.facebook.com/thereddressembroidery

Other places & people we mentioned:

Tamay in Vietnam

 https://reddressembroidery.com/Ly-Ta-May-Tamay

 The FanSina artisans in St Catherines, Sinai, Egypt

 Traces of Sisterhood, Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

 https://salonakademii.asp.waw.pl

 ‘SPEAKING OUT’, an exhibition dedicated to and co-produced by women survivors of conflict-based sexual violence, with the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina.

 https://warchildhood.org/speaking-out-exhibition-experiences-of-crsv-survivors-and-children-born-of-war/

Preston Park Museum, Yarm, Stockton-on-Tees

 https://prestonparkmuseum.co.uk/