Beasts and Animals in Design and Embroidery

Designers and Embroiderers alike have used images of their pets or other animals they have observed.  Imagined or real! It amazes me how interesting the forms or shapes are and what fun embroiderers/stitchers in particular have had with these images. Some of the techniques below include: Stump work, Machine embroidery, Even weave hand embroidery, Applique, Crewel Work, Lace, Quilting, Metal thread work, Soft sculpture and Raised Needleweaving.   The artwork is mostly from our students with a few relics from museums.  Thanks to our students for their imaginative renderings.  Gail Harker

Collection of Ann Darling hand embroidery

© Christina Faiirley Erickson – machine embroidery

Filet Lacis – Collection of Gail Harker

© Christina Fairley Erickson – machine embroidery

Kantha Covering Cloth

© Debra Jusak Kantha cat

© Diana Latimer

detail of hand embroidered casket V and A Museum

from stumpwork casket – needlelace

Stumpwork casket

Even weave embroidery – Detail, 19th or Early 20th C Embroidery, The Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Detail, 19th or Early 20th C Embroidery, The Russian Museum, St Petersburg

© Laura Elmore – machine embroidery

© Jane Clark – Blue Chameleon – hand embroidery

© Maria Winner – Home is Where They are always Happy to See You. Hand and machine

Kantha Covering Cloth 1

© Jill Taylor – Gold Work

© Jill Taylor – Gold work

“In Flight” Christina Fairly Erickson photo Ryan L. Holdridge – machine embroidery

© Jill Taylor – Crewel Embroidery

Northwest Explorer Dog – soft sculpture and hand stitches © Sandy Little – Dimensional images with embroidery

© Diana Latimer – sketchbook

Gargoyle © Sandy Little large sculpture with hand made machine embroidered silk paper manipulated on form

Kantha Covering Cloth

© Claire Jones – dimensional collage

© Isabel Gaddis – machine embroidery

And Bring the Egg © Sandy Little – soft sculpture and hand stitch

Celtic Cavalcade © Christina Fairley Erickson – machine embroidery

© Sandy Little – Metal Thread work

©Janine Hunt – handmade book

© Marcia Romashko – L4 Studies in Experimental Stitch – machine and hand applique

© Detail of Reindeer Hanging Marcia Anop Romashko – machine and applique

© Wendy Mackinnon – hand stitches

© Jill Taylor – design board

© Jill Taylor – sketchbook

© Carol Burrows – machine embroidery

Bella

©Marie Plakos

Victoria and Albert Casket detail embroidery

© Kevin Shinn – sketchbook

Couched work – Bayeux reproduction by Claude Biénacel

© Gwen Lowery