https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv138ws2t.8?searchText=&searchUri=&ab_segments=&searchKey=&refreqid=fastly-default%3Ae8d20ff9591d057ac529964c966e3c24&seq=13 en-us 2023-04-06 15:26:08 UTC 2026-02-24 17:43:37 UTC hello@padlet.com svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2546549671 2023-04-06 18:38:58 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2546549671 svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2546552082 Historically, embroidery has been labeled as "women's work"- an umbrella term for a number of skills and activities that are traditionally done by women (and as such aren't given respect)]]> 2023-04-06 18:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2546552082 svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2546559999 "Fine art" consists of art made for the sake of beauty and its aesthetic value-such as painting and sculpture. Historically, these are occupations that have discouraged the participation of women.

Embroidery is considered an "applied art" as it is traditionally seen as a utilitarian activity, or for the decoration of practical objects.]]> 2023-04-06 18:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2546559999 svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2546565151 Embroidery needs to be done on other items such as tapestries, handkerchiefs, or clothes.
These ties to objects meant to be used mean that the embroidery itself has largely been dismissed from the "bigger picture".]]> 2023-04-06 19:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2546565151 svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547429203 2023-04-08 00:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547429203 svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547430090 "At the same time women in elite circles were developing ways in which to exercise influence within the Church. They did so by patronising members of the clergy through gifts such as much needed vestments and other soft furnishings . . . Thus, the Cuthbert embroideries were probably meant to place Alffaed closer to God but also intended to exert influence at a more worldly level (pg 88).]]> 2023-04-08 00:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547430090 svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547432973 "During this period women were not allowed to enter the sanctuary of a church . . . Nevertheless, by commissioning the work and having her name embroidered on the reverse of the stole and maniple, Aelfflaed was secretly placing herself at the alter during the most sacred rights of the Church, and arguably, closer to God" (Lester-Makin).]]> 2023-04-08 01:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547432973 svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547780938 "As we see with the Kempston fragment, particular artistic forms involving specific materials . . . may initially have been associated with particular territories, but as they became dispersed, they evolved to incorporate different motifs, materials and meanings, becoming an amalgamation of the original" (89).]]> 2023-04-09 00:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547780938 svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547781478 Embroidery, like all art, changed over time. The things that were popular shifted over time as those who consumed it changed.]]> 2023-04-09 00:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547781478 svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547782571 "The favour of giving such beautiful and expensive embroideries therefore carried both ways; the prayers of the monks and the power of the saint could, in the early medieval mind, influence the outcomes of Aethelstan's battle agains the Picts" (89).]]> 2023-04-09 00:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547782571 svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547784215 2023-04-09 01:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547784215 svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547786227 In recent years, embroidery has been "reclaimed" by feminist activists- one important work that incorporates it is "The Dinner Party" by Judy Chicago.

This work was faced with heavy criticism, with some critics denying it was even art.]]> 2023-04-09 01:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547786227 svb56 https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547786609 2023-04-09 01:14:00 UTC https://padlet.com/svb56/xlgtd95q0ve9sg6a/wish/2547786609