Embroidered Fossils
20TH MAY 2022 - ASU #331
There is an abundance of beautiful, embroidered gardens and natural scenes on display on the internet, and we love seeing how textile artists use their needles to capture nature in the confines of a hoop. But Rachel Crisp has done something a little different, dropping a fossil right in the middle of her stunning, textured embroidery scenes.
Each ‘garden’ features a cornucopia of vegetation created from a wide variety of fibres, stitches and techniques. But right in the middle of each one, as if emerging from the growth around it, is a dinosaur bone or fossil, worked in perfect, pale satin stitch.