Needle by Lorna Crozier, a fabric bookwork by Lise Melhorn-Boe
Channel: Queen's University Library
Date: 2022-05-04

Featured in the exhibition, Textus-Texts-Textiles: fabric bookworks by Lise Melhorn-Boe, at W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections, Queen’s University Library, 6 May – 9 September 2022. 

Needle is the fourth book in the collection inspired by a poem in Crozier's The Book of Marvels. Needle-books, which are needle-cases made of cloth or flannel with leaves and covers resembling a small book, have an origin dating back to at least the 17th century. Needle books have often been objects of adornment, frequently embedded with motifs or embroidered messages for/between female friends. 

Video by Brendan Edwards and Ella Heiss; edited by Ella Heiss, 2022.