NeedleXChange

Jamie Chalmers

Jamie “Mr X Stitch” Chalmers talks with contemporary embroidery, cross stitch, textile art, and mixed media art creators about how they design their work, build sustainable creative businesses, and stay inspired with a needle and thread. NeedleXChange shares in‑depth conversations with fiber artists, stitchers, and makers so you can discover new techniques, creative journeys, and the modern needlework scene.

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Episodes (142)

Monday Renan Estivan - Bodies at Rest [NX142]
Mon May 18th Shea Wilkinson - Mystery is the Method Part 2 [NX141]
Mon May 11th Shea Wilkinson - Mystery is the Method [NX140]

NeedleXChange

May 25, 2026
35½ minutes
32 MB

In this episode of NeedleXChange, I interview Renan Estivan, a São Paulo-based contemporary embroidery and textile art artist known for queer tapestries that put the male body at their centre. In Part 1 we get into his mum's Arraíolos rugs and the embroidery tradition she passed on, choosing design at UNESP over art, how the pandemic in Salvador collided with a pixel-art drawing to spark his first erotic cross stitch, his shift onto the tufting gun, and the Brazilian tapestry lineage running from Kennedy Bahia and Tropicália through Leonilson. Links: Website: ren...

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Renan Estivan - Bodies at Rest [NX142]

Jamie Chalmers

00:00 -34:34