Red Dress (embroidery project)

The Red Dress is an international collaborative embroidery project, created from 2009 to 2022 and coordinated by Somerset-based British artist Kirstie Macleod.

I've used military pattern cuts along the shoulders and front bodice, but I wanted it to read in a very feminine way.

It has been shown at venues including the Royal School of Needlework (UK),[1] and the National Library of Kosovo in Pristina.

As of 2022[update] plans for future venues include Australia, Canada, Columbia, Egypt, Pakistan, South Africa, and the United States;[9] an exhibition at the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico in 2020 was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

[10] The project was originally called Barocco,[11] the Portuguese term for an imperfect pearl, which Macleod said indicated that "it was something special but stuck inside a structure"; she changed it to "The Red Dress" as a more widely understood and easily pronounced title.