Jessica Wohl’s “Sewn Drawings”
Artist Jessica Wohl modifies vintage photographs by embroidering what look like fantastical masks over people’s faces.
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Embroidered Illustrations by Ann Khokhlova
It’s amazing how much depth the texture of the embroidery floss adds to the surface of these enigmatic illustrations by Ann Khokhlova.
Jill Lanza’s Embroidered Images of Electronics
Artist Jill Lanza beautifully depicts images of electronics that we incessantly touch with our hands in a thoughtful series of hand-stitched embroidery pieces.
Autobiographical Embroidery With Joetta Maue
Turn the tales you’ve spun in your own life into unique pieces of needlework in an upcoming class with extraordinary embroiderer Joetta Maue.
Melissa Sixma’s Needlework Memes
Much like the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England were memorialized in embroidery by the Bayeux Tapestry, artist Melissa Sixma has commemorated several important moments in the history of the internetz with this exquisite series of needlework pieces.
Emboidered Digital Icons
Embroidery student Aising Smyth creates needlework that highlights the striking visual connection between digital icons and traditional embroidered imagery.
Cross-Stitched Wedding Photo
Investing the time it takes to cross-stitch an entire photograph is an amazing way to show how much you care about that image and the people in it, like Tumblr user mcmolls’ aunt did with this thoughtful cross-stitched picture of her grandparents’ wedding photo.
