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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

RAISED WORK, STUMPWORK, PICTURE

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A fine example of stumpwork, a technique revived in early 1990s by N.S.W tutor, Jane Nicholas who wrote several books on the topic, containing small projects with flowers and insects. This piece, a butterfly with transparent wings and two flowers, a thistle and acorns, is the second in a series of three (3) donated, each a level of increasing difficulty.
2018.46 a bee and one flower, a rose.
2018.48 a dragonfly, even larger wings, two flowers, a poppy and a pair of cornflowers with raised leaf.
2004.37 Jane Nicholas donated a paper weight that she had stitched. Rose and bee.

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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

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