TALKING THREADS

TALKING THREADS

Talking Threads opens on 8 June 2023. With this exhibition, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam shows the enormous variety of embroidery, largely from its own collection, made by people all over the world. It focuses on the comprehensive significance of embroidery as decoration, as a cultural expression, as a language through which stories are told and as an expression of group and individual identity. Talking Threads puts the spotlight on the often unknown makers whose hands created and keep creating all those beautiful works.


Image courtesy of Wereldmuseum Rotterdam

Wereldmuseum Rotterdam's exhibition addresses developments in society in recent years. People have rediscovered crafts as a meaningful activity and as answers to the growing need for slow living: living more attentively, in the present moment. The museum's collection provides a great source of inspiration and arouses awe of the technical ingenuity with which the works were made.............

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