Embroidery

While looking at various artist using embroidery techniques i found Tilleke Schwarz most inspiring. From first glance his pieces look like drawings, the detail and technique used is incredible to look at. I love how the drawings look like children's graffiti, the little doodles of animals and text tell a story in a form of poetry.

I took an interest in looking at different example of text in embroidery to see if i could attempt my own for the college stand at the Clothes Show Live 2010.

 Some of the embroidery pictured here is by hand and some machine. I think the most effective would be the large fancy D text, i would love to do my own version on this so i will experiment further to see if its  doable obviously depending on how time consuming it may be.

My attempts of embroidery below. Trying out a simply text that would be easily read by people passing the stand.

Here a much larger ring of embroidery cleverly using the college logo as a love heart. Keeping with the college colours to blend with the collection as well as to represent the College. I think this is a really effective piece that will make people stop and take notice of what we have to offer at Stafford College.