TTOT185 Stitching in War and Peace: The Embroidery of WWll POW, Major Casdagli

RSN Curator, Dr Isabella Rosner and Alexia Penny Casdagli. Wednesday 22 October 2025, 7pm UK

Embroidery is not just the work of women in the home or at school. Embroidery is also the work of men and those in spaces like prisons. One exceptional imprisoned stitcher was A.T. Casdagli, a British-Greek major who embroidered throughout his four years in German prisoner of war camps during the Second World War. Most striking is his subversive stitching, the samplers, bookmarks, and maps that spell out choice words for Hitler in Morse code and depict life in the camps.

Join RSN Curator Isabella Rosner and A.T. Casdagli’s daughter, Alexis Penny Casdagli, as they discuss her father’s life of embroidery. His stitching will be put into conversation with that of others in prison, such as Ray Materson and the work of Fine Cell Work, and that of other male embroiderers.

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