Embroidery "Liberation"

Artist/Maker

DatesMade: Made 1967

Material / Technique

Dimensionsh x w: Mått 87 x 114 cm

Inventory numberNMK 180/1967

AcqusitionGift 1967 The Craft Association of Stockholm City

Other titlesTitle (sv): Broderi "Frigörelse" Title (en): Embroidery "Liberation" Label (sv): "Frigörelsen" Label (en): "Liberation"

DescriptionDescription: The embroidery was “a shock of joy”, critic Susann Frennberg wrote in the magazine Form in 1967, because Alice Sellgren was able to use “all tones and shades at the same time” and still create a unity. The title emphasized that this was a liberation from the textile traditions, where the textile teacher’s call for embroidery to look as good on the back as on the front was nothing but a memory.

Collection

MaterialTextile fibre, Cotton cloth (Textiles, Textile fabric)

TechniqueEmbroidery, Applied art