Garden Birds: Chaffinch - Original Hand Embroidery metal thread landscape or square

landscape or square

ready for display

Gutermann machine thread

The image outline is then transferred to fabric which is stretched within a slate frame

all of which are essential when building up shading and texture in a piece of silk shading

Garden Birds: Chaffinch - Original Hand Embroidery metal thread landscape or squareOriginal hand embroidery of a Chaffinch from the Garden Bird collection. This beautifully detailed little bird sat upon a large needle took approximately 14 hours to embroider using a combination of two techniques called silk shading and stumpwork. Silk shading, sometimes known as 'painting with the needle' was used to replicate the delicate soft texture of the feathers by blending together seven shades of stranded cotton threads, each one inserted