Book, Eleanor Taylor, The Cardinian Flora & Fauna Embroidery, 2017

Physical description

24 pages

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

A wide variety of hand embroidery stiches were used, as well as machine embroidery on hand-painted fabric.Tree trunks were mainly appliqued but some some were cross-stiched; distant foliage is free machine embroidery on water-soluble fabric and closer foliage consists of individually embroidered leaves.All 55 embroideries of birds, animals, fish, insects, plants, fence posts, logs, rocks, etc. were worked by 15 people.312 residents, families and friends added their stiches to the canvaswork label panel.

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