Queen Máxima participated in a rather special embroidery workshop in The Hague, taking part in the artistic and societal project “Thuis in Den Haag”. The common thread of the project consists of creating small embroideries… using a red thread, while sharing your community experience with the participants.
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Queen Máxima embroiders with residents of The Hague
Queen Máxima, 53, is passionate about embroidery. The Queen of the Netherlands notably participated in 2022 in the embroidery work of the new Huis ten Bosch palace curtains. This Tuesday, January 14, 2025, Queen Máxima participated in the “Thuis in Den Haag” embroidery workshop.
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This workshop consists of making embroidery placemats, while stimulating discussions and giving participants a voice. The creations are then hung on a structure forming a house. The house travels all over the city and where it lands, neighborhood residents are invited to embroider a design on a placemat. The final house, covered in embroidered fabrics, will be installed in front of The Hague Library in May.
Symbolically, it is a common thread that is used to create the drawings, evoking the common thread of the project, namely the feeling of belonging to The Hague. This initiative is inspired by the artistic project “Heimat” by Swiss artist Kathrin Stalder. Queen Máxima was able to discuss with the participants their sense of belonging to The Hague and their life in the city. Queen Máxima, who is also a resident of The Hague, spoke for example of the change in her daily life since her three daughters left home. The eldest studied at the university in Amsterdam, the second studied at university in London and the third completed her secondary education at a boarding school in Italy.
Around the table, among the embroiderers who accompanied the queen during this social and artistic exercise, were notably an emigrant of Surinamese origin and a Syrian mother. Queen Máxima, of Argentinian origin, can easily discuss the integration of people of foreign origin in the Netherlands. Queen Máxima, for her part, embroidered a placemat with the project logo with red thread. This project is led by the Haags Verhaal Foundation, which is a cultural and social initiative that aims to connect people and communities through meetings, events and publications.
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