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Do you find it gets dark too quickly in winter? Find the solution with a space age mirror from 1967 https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1617789423168458752 Currently reading The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine, by Rozsika Parker published in 1984. it examines how embroidery, an art performed originally by both sexes was crafted into and formed notions of femininity and how it was also shaped by women who enabled the art to present aspects of their identity https://feministlibrary.co.uk/book-review-the-subversive-stitch-embroidery-and-the-making-of-the-feminine/ It argues that Victorians cultivated the myth that embroidery was performed by isolated nuns, whereas in fact women did participate in workrooms and there were examples of professional embroiderers running their own workshops today Embroidery became separated from other arts and associated with the domestic and feminine and thus undervalued A skill for ladies Mary Queen of Scots practised it extensively Marvelous examples from the collections of the V&A some of the symbols also showed her claims against Elizabeth I . they include images associated with her fertility https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/prison-embroideries-mary-queen-of-scots a great cat symbol from the Royal collection which may have hidden meanings! https://www.rct.uk/collection/28224/embroidered-panel Best wishes Heather Dawson [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the LIS-SOCIALSCIENCE list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=LIS-SOCIALSCIENCE&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/LIS-SOCIALSCIENCE, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/