Swallow and grasses hanging
Small dyed landscape hanging embellished with embroidered stitches. A swallow flying across the landscape above grasses and fields all created with stitched shibori. The stitches utilised in the embroidery are simple running stitch and seed stitch. The first of a series of small hangings depicting birds. To be completed.
Dimensions: 35cm high x 19cm wide organic cotton
Townhill Studio
Sherborne, England
A stitched shibori dyed hanging decorated with stitch. Elements of a swallow, grasses and seeds and a sun all created with various shibori resist stitches
The process of creating the initial shibori resist design is shown. Plus the resulting fabric after dyeing but before embroidery
Close up detail of stitch around the swallow and the seed heads.