RADICALCROSSSTITCH

A revolutionary rest

Film maker Jim Finn (no relation to the Te Awamutu boys I’m guessing) has a diverse portfolio of talents and has also stitched these pillows featuring Communist Heroes. And the stitching is gorgeous.

I was most interested in the process he went through to create them:

I chose needlepoint because I grew up with it. In St Louis, girls make their boyfriends and brothers needlepoint belts and women needlepoint pillows and church cushions among other things. I designed the images I wanted and sent them to the Sign of the Arrow, a needlepoint store in an affluent suburb of St. Louis. They hand-paint the image on the canvas and I stitch across it and then make them into pillows. A number of people have helped on this project

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