Red quilt

When we craft, we make something that didn’t exist before. We document ideas and create conversations to be shared by many. Making things proves we have power—the power to change our world.

"For such a personal piece, it had to have part of me in it; I chose to embroider my hands. Hands are important. They can be used to comfort, create and hold. My hands are lined and I have callouses on my fingers from stitching."

Enid Twiglet, Article 27, red quilt

UDHR Red quilt

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Article 20

Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

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Natalie Maurer is maker, high school art teacher and craft-workshop facilitator. She has a passion for learning and teaching, and is forever seeking to further her understanding and knowledge of the arts and crafts from around the world. Natalie seeks to explore traditional techniques and discover contemporary ways to use materials and methods. With a background in teaching visual art and a desire to strengthen connections to community, Natalie is also engaged in facilitating craft workshops and meet-ups.

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Article 19

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

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I am currently a sophomore at Arizona State University studying environmental design. I’ve lived in Arizona my whole life but I have been lucky enough to travel around a bunch, thanks to having two flight attendants as parents. I started embroidering this past month and quickly fell in love with it. Outside of embroidery I enjoy many other forms of art: drawing, painting, throwing pottery, collage/mixed media, etc. I love being able to explore all forms of art and allow my knowledge from separate mediums to influence me in my endeavours.

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Article 18

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

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Janine Heschl is a self-taught wildlife textile artist and activist based in Austria. Janine specialises in realistic thread-painting, embroidered with a sewing machine in free-motion sewing technique. Her main concern lies in the welfare of Mother Nature and its beautiful creatures. Realistic animal portraits have become her trademark over the years, in order to raise awareness of the danger of extinction and pollution.

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Article 17

Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

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Libby Simpson is a self-taught embroidery artist living in Cambridgeshire, England. She creates work under the moniker Oh My Golly Embroidery and sells hoops, badges and patches in her Etsy store of the same name. 

Her work is often inspired by nostalgia, feminism, politics and popular culture (specifically music). 

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Article 16

Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

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I am a 17 year old hailing from the beautiful land of South Africa. I have only been embroidering for the past year and began as a form of therapy. There is a silent sense of healing through the slow work of embroidery which I have embraced and learn patience from such a practice in a world of instant gratification. Embroidery has also taught me to express my thoughts, dreams and journeys in a refreshingly new and contemporary way.

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Article 15

Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

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Beka Hannah holds a Masters of Fine Art from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. With a multi-disciplinary craft-based practice, Beka’s work revolves around a re-imagination of the everyday, with a strong focus on engagement with the natural world and a specific focus towards conservation. 

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Article 14

Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

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Irene Pérez is from Terrassa, Spain. She is a feminist visual artist whose works explore concepts of cultural and social identity, gender, language, education and motherhood as activism. Irene’s interest in working with textiles stems from both her family’s history—almost all the elder members of her family worked in the textile industry—and her interest in a slow process of production and the material characteristics they embody.

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Article 13

Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

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Jessica McGowan, a textile artist from Northern Ireland, is a pattern-making enthusiast who takes her pattern-making inspiration from 1950’s mid-modern design. She is heavily influenced by the personal and political, experimenting with traditional mediums—mainly hand-embroidery and print—to interpret her story. She creates sentimental patterns using contemporary colours to combine the traditional processes of printmaking and embroidery, in which she deliberately intends to transform her personal experiences into beautifully coloured artworks.

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Article 12

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

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Katheryn Benedict-Perri is a self-taught hand-embroiderer from London, England. Using embroidery as a tool for meditation, her process involves using intricate stitching techniques to work through complex subject matter.

After graduating from university, she went to work for Fine Cell Work, a social enterprise that trains prisoners in paid, skilled needlework. Here, she learned first-hand the positive impact embroidery can have on individual lives and its ability to build self-worth and overcome troubling feelings.

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Article 11

Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

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Hayley Mills-Styles is an artist and educator specialising in textiles. She has worked within the field of arts and mental health with organisations like Arts & Minds Network and HOOT Creative Arts. 

Hayley is an advocate for creative provision as a form of recovery. She has personal experience of mental health issues and was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder in 2017. Through her own work she has explored the themes of depression.

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