This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK).

Many autobiographers share profound questions about human life with their readers—questions like: To what extent was my life imposed on me? To what extent did

For the Yaka of Southwestern Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual is a trusted way of reweaving the damaged strand

"The memoirs of a celebrity costume designer describe her upbringing in the fashionable celebrity circles of her literary parents, her family's artistic but tra

Collaboration between the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute and Robert Glenn Ketchum. Photographs by Ketchum were recreated as pieces of embroidery by SERI.