On Saturday, March 15, 2025 7PM Eastern, Professor Mariko Nagai will be joining us for her virtual lecture Senninbari “Thousand Stitch Belts” in Wartime Japan and USA.
Registration for this LIVE virtual lecture is now open to all EGA members for $5 and closes on March 13, 2025 1PM Eastern. This registration will not give you access to the recording of this lecture. Registration for a recorded version of this lecture will happen separately at a later date for $5.
More about this virtual lecture
Embroidered by multigenerational women in Japan and Nikkei (Japanese American) women in the US during World War II, Senninbari, or “One Thousand Stitch Belts,” were gifted to men who joined the army and left for battle, as a talisman to come back alive. As communal stitching projects practiced during a time of conflict, they took on significant social, cultural, and political meaning. Endorsed as “patriotic”, Senninbari also embodied the silent protest Japanese women, both in Japan, and also by the nikkei community in America.
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Virtual lectures Coming Soon
Coming Soon: Artificial Intelligence (AI) In the Embroidery Community with Anne Marie Oliver — How the increasing prevalence of generative AI images, patterns, and kits is affecting everyone in the embroidery community – both the stitchers who are looking to purchase patterns or kits, as well as the designers who are selling their designs. Live Lecture Date: Saturday, April 19, 2025 1PM Eastern Live Lecture Registration: March 27 – April 17, 2025 1PM Eastern Get a reminder!
Coming Soon: Erica Wilson’s Life in Stitches with Dr. Anne Hilker — Erica Wilson brought the stitches, color, expression, and fun of embroidery into countless homes in the last decades of the twentieth century. Trained at the Royal School of Needlework, and very much a Briton, she nonetheless gave stitching a decidedly stateside twist, employing her signature charisma and whimsy in magazines, books, and television to take handwork from stuffy to “mod.” Based on the 2020 book by Linda Eaton and Anne Hilker, this talk will feature Erica Wilson’s “life in stitches.” Live Lecture Date: Saturday, May 10, 2025 1PM Eastern Live Lecture Registration: April 17 – May 8, 2025 1PM Eastern Get a reminder!
