A stitch through time: embroidery gives 1970s objects a second life – in pictures

Over the past decade, Swedish designer Ulla-Stina Wikander has collected cross-stitch embroideries from flea markets and vintage stores; her collection now contains more than 100 designs. In 2012 she started to use these embroideries to cover household objects from the 70s: a sewing machine, a vacuum cleaner, an electric mixer. “These embroideries have mostly been made by women and are seen as kitsch and pretty worthless,” she says. By combining the old items and embroideries, both a