Fine Cell Work website

Interesting stories and media clippings, illustrating the important rehabilitative role that the arts can play in prisons, feature on the Fine Cell Work website. A registered charity, Fine Cell Work works in 26 prisons in England and Scotland, teaching needlework to prison inmates and selling their work. The inmates are taught by 45 volunteer instructors, many of whom have been taught at the Embroiderer's Guild and the Royal School of Needlework.

Fine Cell Work is currently working on a major commission for the refurbishment of Dover Castle, one of the largest castles in the country. It is designing and stitching 47 cushions in silk, linen and hessian, using the motifs and materials of
the 12th century. The cushions will be stitched by prison inmates working for and with Fine Cell Work, as part of their rehabilitation.