ABSTRACT
Stitching ethnography is engendered, first as an empirical need to understand the continuity between textile materialities and bodies that embroider, and second as a methodological device with which to study collectively and to study how our bodies feel and connect. As an initial discovery, learning how to stitch shows the ethnographer how her body knows and listens differently when immersed in textile-making. This learning process creates an intimate atmosphere in which the ethnographer relates with those she studies (embroiderers and embroideries), and is invited, then, to explore how stitching with others or inviting others to stitch can unfold new questions with which together we stitch what we are trying to understand ethnographically. In this process, embroidering learning as a device transforms from an object to study ethnographically into an artefact with which to ask new ethnographic questions.
