Very Exciting News!

The Embroiderers Guild is publishing my book "Dreams of Amarna - Stitching An Egyptological Adventure". It is available for purchase through their webshop, here.

The project "Dreams of Amarna" is a twenty five year adventure with needle and brush, an exploration of the variety of inspiration available even from a small seed. The book which has grown from it is an invitation to explore the development of creativity in conversation with the art and archaelogy of ancient Egypt.

Join me on a mesmerising journey threading ideas through time, as I reimagine ancient Egyptian art and history in embroidery and paint. Inspired by the adventures and discoveries of the archaeologists and excavators of 1920s Egypt, so delightfully chronicled by Mary Chubb, I have sought to tell their stories in stitch.

Back, spine, and front of the book "Dreams of Amarna - Stitching an Egyptological Adventure" by Rachel Mary Wright. The book is a sandy yellow, the picture on the front an embroidered picture of a dig in progress. The author photo on the back shows a white woman with dark hair, going grey at the temples. She's wrapped in a faience-blue pashmina and smiling at the camera.

Praise for the Book

Don't just take my word for it...!

"Rachel is not simply recreating the masterpieces of the ancients in a different medium she is reinterpreting and reimagining them."

Ian Andrew Oswald Trumble, Archeologist and Museum curator.

Photograph of an embroidery depicting faience beads from a necklace. The embroidery uses glossy flat silk thread, and the stitches are chosen to help bring to mind not just the beads, but the fruits and flowers that inspired them.

"Dreams of Amarna is an inspirational book that explores Rachel Mary Wright's passion for ancient Egyptian culture and art. Her enthusiasm for reinventing the visual ideas she has come to admire manifests itself in her own textile journey, which will, I'm sure, encourage embroiderers to do the same."

Anthea Godfrey, Artistic Director, The Embroiderers Guild