Elisa Kraatari

1860s Memorial Wreaths – A Commemorative Craft Initiative for Finland’s Great Hunger Years PART 1: The Argument

The 1860s Memorial Wreaths initiative was a small-scale, personal intervention by me and researcher Andrew G. Newby. In the initiative, I made eight memorial wreaths that we then, touring across Finland, placed at different local memorials dedicated to the memory of the Great Hunger Years of 1860s. While this initiative served as a personal commemorativeContinue reading “1860s Memorial Wreaths – A Commemorative Craft Initiative for Finland’s Great Hunger Years PART 1: The Argument”

I returned to Rozsika Parker’s ‘The Subversive Stitch’ and its 2010 edition. Embroidery reads as determined action!