Swedish artist Ulla-Stina Wikander transforms everyday new and vintage appliances by covering them in brightly colored needlepoint embroidery
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Mary Concepta Lynch, an Irish nun and skilled calligrapher, who spent 16 years (1920-1936) decorating the Oratory of the Domincan Convent, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland #WomensArt
Kolam, a complex geometric drawing art ceated on the ground with rice flour or chalk, relating philosophical and religious motifs, widely practised by female family members, in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Thailand #WomensArt
The US group Moms Demand Action created The Mother's Dream Quilt Project to symbolize the human toll of gun violence in the US, especially on their children's lives #WomensArt
'The Dementia Darnings' a series of large scale embroidered portraits of the mother of artist Jenni Dutton, creating an intimate insight into the perspective of a carer, the aging process and the #mother-daughter relationship #WomensArt
'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, who used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
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During the two World Wars, women in Europe used knitting for spying, including encoding messages with combinations of knits and purls...find out more in #UnravellingWomensArt the
Wawiriya Burton, senior Australian Aboriginal artist and healer who, in collaboration with her daughters, painted Mingkiri Tjukurpa, 2011 #WomensArt#MothersDay