Yep, you saw that right, Hellboy embroidery. A great example of embroidery that is not all flowers & alphabets. I think we've moved far away from the old school notion of embroidery as women's work & women's subjects (whatever that really means) .
Of course, there's also my own example, that I sent to LisaLady, in the Phat Quarter swap:
I read recently, in the comments section of the DonkeyWolf blog, someone who basically believed that embroidery was a woman's endeavor, filled with girly women's subject matter (like we where back in some other era, where women, upper class women, that is, sat in drawing rooms, embroidering, learning obscure languages, waiting to be married off). Now, it's definitely true that the examples I show above where both made by women, but there are plenty of examples out there of manly embroidery (like Johnny Murder or Mr. X Stitch) & I have to say that our subjects here do not fit this antiquated notion...
What do you think? Is embroidery still women's work? Should we, as women, be doing more genteel subjects? Should manbroiderers cut it out & stop embroidering altogether? These seem like rhetorical questions to me. You can't turn back the clock & even if we could, would we really want to?
