Have spent the last week whilst I've been sick learning some Tatreez embroidery, which is a traditional form of Palestinian embroidery 🪡

I've learnt it via a gorgeous website called www.tatreeztraditions.com which offers how to and free downloads of motifs 🌲

Nothing says 'i work in a small charity museum' like my girlfriend volunteering on the front of desk this weekend like a true comrade 🫡

This is favourite embroidery, it was done by a soldier who was injured during World War II and stayed at the First Eastern General Hospital in Cambridge.

I think a lot about the links between injury, disability and mental health and how textiles is woven through these histories 🪡🪿

I wrote a piece for @shcg.bsky.social newsletter magazine about some beautiful embroideries at the Museum of Cambridge. In my role as Collections Officer I curated 'The Stories Behind the Stitches' which has sadly ended now, but got to research all about these pieces stitched by injured soldiers. 🪡

Look at these good guys at the @sainsburycentre.bsky.social new exhibition 'Why Do We Take Drugs?' - obsessed with this artists work 🦌

Hello! My name is Beau and I work in museums, am a big fan of textiles, created the Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt with my partner Alice, and do things like embroidery and cross stitch myself 🪡