Thread 01
What can a material decision communicate beyond skill or ornament?
Open Inquiry
What makes embroidery art?
A question about works, intentions, contexts, materials and the conditions of looking.
This is not a test that separates art from non-art once and for all. It asks how an embroidered work acquires force in relation to its material decisions, its setting, its histories and the people who encounter it.
Thread 02
How do context and display alter what a work is able to say?
Thread 03
Which habits of judgement flatten embroidery into craft, decoration or proof of labour alone?
Research boundary
What this page will not assume.
This inquiry does not set a value hierarchy, certify artists or use technical difficulty and duration as measures of artistic worth.