Vietnamese Studio Creates the Most Amazing Silk Embroideries
Hand-made silk embroidery is a long-standing tradition in Vietnam, but the craft only recently reached its peak, when two artists – an embroider and a painter – decided to combine their skills and found the country’s most successful hand embroidery studio. XQ Dalat was founded by Hoang Le Xuan, a talented artisan who inherited ancient […]
Artist Sews Portraits of His Family into the Palm of His Hand
This has to be one of the most bizarre art-forms I’ve ever seen. Spanish artist David Cata has taken ‘hand embroidery’ to a whole new level. Using needle-and-thread, he embroiders portraits of people who have impacted his life on to his palms. He calls the series of works ‘a flor de piel’, which means ‘Under […]