Ten or so evenings, and a blue pansy in real silk standing on the shelf in its own frame — a complete silk-shading kit in the Su needle-painting method (thread painting, long and short stitch), silk thread on mulberry silk organza. It comes with...
“There’s magic in the web of it.” — Othello, Act 3, Scene 4 A line of Shakespeare, sewn in silk. Othello’s weaver’s word for enchantment is hand-embroidered in gold thread on a navy pure-silk scarf/pocket square, in a technique refined over two thousand years....
Made for a bookmark, not borrowed from a hoop. A 12 cm x 4 cm embroidery blank you can hold in one hand: sheer silk organza edged in silk cord, wrapped by hand stitch by stitch, with a tassel in the pack. No hoop...