Two other reviews of the TRC-supported Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Embroidery, namely the Encyclopedia of Embropdiery from Central Asia, the Iran Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent (London 2021). One of them has just been published by the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands and was written by Linda Hanssen, former curator for textiles at the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam.. You can download the review here.

Another review was published in June 2022 by the Zai Initiative (Abu Dhabi).

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The next volume in the series, on African embroideries, has been submitted, and work on the fourth volume, on embroidery from Scandinavia and western Europe, is advancing rapidly. The first volume appeared in 2016 and covered embroidery from the Arab World.

7 August 2022