The embroidery of Edith Raymond and the embroidered Afghan response

A happy meeting in 2023 and the desire for intercultural exchange. Edith agrees to provide two series of her hand embroideries, the “snakes” and the “masks”. Snakes are dangerously familiar to Afghan women, the masks are reminiscent of the jinn, these good and evil spirits.
Then the Afghan women were invited to make embroidered responses to Edith’s embroideries. An embroiderer face to face, a firework between the great French lady and the Afghan women.

We are exhibiting these embroideries at the Créations & savoir-faire fair, Porte de Versailles in Paris.
For more detailed and practical information, see the Créations & savoir-faire trade fair website

Image: Embroiderer Sonam