Book Launch of 'The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch'

Book Launch of 'The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch'

27 May 2025

Venue

RWA, Queen’s Road, Bristol BS8 1PX

Price

£10

Date

27 May 2025

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Full price: £10

Book Launch - The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch

6:30pm - 8:30pm, Tuesday 27 May 2025 

We are thrilled to be hosting the launch of The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch, the much-anticipated book bringing together voices from The Red Dress global collaborative embroidery project created by British artist Kirstie Macleod and contributed to by 380 individuals from 51 countries over 14 years from 2009–2023.

Join us to secure your copy of this new publication, see The Red Dress exhibited in our beautiful building, hear from the Red Dress' custodian Kirstie Macleod.

Celebrating and documenting the award-winning project, the book is an energetic curation of material from the dress’s incredible ongoing journey. It features poignant hand-selected embroiderer stories, thought-provoking and illuminating commissioned essays on themes The Red Dress brings up, such as identity, empowerment and healing trauma, and reflections from milestones in the project.

The Red Dress weaves together diverse narrative across borders and boundaries uniting artisans and audiences in the shared community of embroidery. Embellished with an estimated 1-1.5 billion stitches, the dress will be recognised in Guinness World Records 2026 as the largest collaborative embroidery project.

The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch is available as a softback, limited-edition hardback and as an e-book and is published by Quickthorn Books UK. 

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