Alain Dodier

Creativity with Threads and Needle by Jeannine Cook

Well over two years of patient embroidering, stitch by stitch, to create a wonderful needlework panel about medieval pilgrims crossing the south of France on their way to Santiago de Compostela: that is Alain Dodier’s recent achievement. A true work of art, it is well worth enjoying on YouTube.

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When Art and Embroidery Unite - Part 1 by Jeannine Cook

When art meets embroidery in a dark, complex historical tale of Southern France and takes five thousand hours to tell the story, this implies passion, skill, dedication and a deep sense of our need, in today’s world, not to indulge in such destruction. It is an amazing feat of story-telling.

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