Showing posts with label Shadow work embroidery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shadow work embroidery. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

The rear-view of the Shadow Work Embroidery




This is the back-view of my Shadow Work Embroidery. You can get an idea of the stitches I have used and how it looks. In Shadow Work the stitches need to be very neat, the stitch ending knots need to be tiny, strong and should be hidden as the stitching is done on a transeparent material.

Here is the full-view of the Shadow-Work Embroidery.



I have used several colours of cotton floss single-strand for all the items on the stitching. The embroidery is done on a white organdy material.
For the flowers and leaves on the middle of the embroidery I have used herringbone stitch( shadow work) done on the rear of the material. The tiny flowers on the border of the stitching were done using buttonhole stitch on the front side. Shadow work embroidery usually needs a lining material to go with it.
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