Working class women learned to embroider too, especially if they were responsible for household linens. In Europe, upper class young women learned decorative embroidery. Turns out, as my guest today will help us understand, embroidery is one way to do that.Īlex Chambers: Embroidery has traditionally been the domain of women, at least in recent centuries in the west. Finding ways to take care of ourselves, to keep from going crazy, but also to be more tender toward ourselves, the importance of that is evermore apparent. After two years of Covid, and the isolation that so many people have had to endure, although not everyone's been able to isolate, let's remember that.
Sit back and relax and open a book embroidery series#
I'll be talking with the person who created that class in a few weeks, but I want to kick the series off with a conversation about queer embroidery, with a friend of mine, Ileana Haberman. I'm stealing that name from a class that was taught at Indiana University in the fall of 2021. This is part one of a series I'm doing on textile politics. That's all coming up right after this.Īlex Chambers: Welcome to Inner States, I'm Alex Chambers. Stay tuned after that we'll have a review of Woodworker Nancy Hiller's book, Shop Tails the animals who help us make things work. And I just do it because it makes me happy.Īlex Chambers: This week on Inner States, a conversation with Ileana Haberman about embroidery, queerness and mental health. It doesn't really make sense, and it makes me so happy. We don't value someone sitting alone in their living room, for years working on tiny stitches. Also I'm really proud of it when it's done because that's not valued in our culture. Ileana Haberman: There's just something about hours and hours of tedium that I just love. What she really looks forward to is the months of minutia after that. But that creative part, designing and drawing the image, only takes about two hours. She creates beautiful expressive images that explore queerness, the natural world and more.
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