Embroidery fine art

Moscow-based fabric artist and designer Katerina Marchenko stitches brightly colored threads into tulle to form elaborate embroidered images of animals, portraits, and anatomical studies. In their hoops, Marchenko’s pieces work as framed thread paintings. Bird and angel wings appear to have dimension and human eyes pop thanks to the artist’s attention to color harmony and shading. Marchenko skips the sketching phase and starts each new piece with contours before allowing improvisation and…

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Lesley Wood, Furnished with Memories (detail) When Lesley Wood inherited her mother's cross stitch stash and tried to replicate her own fine art paintings on fabric, she was frustrated that her stitches were thick and clumsy. Not to be deterred, she joined her local Embroiderers' Guild, and in a few short years became an award winning textile artist.

It seems like I've been cross-stitching my whole life. I really enjoy this type of creativity. Recently, I found myself without a job, and to find a way out of this situation, I started creating and selling my own cross-stitch patterns. Yes, in such a difficult time for me, I decided to create my own workspace—a digital cross-stitch pattern designer. A dream job!

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Embroidery & gelliprint hoop art

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A very fine embroidery, probably Scottish in origin.